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Re: [egit-dev] checking 1.0.0.201106011211-rc3
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Chris Aniszczyk skrev 2011-06-06 21.58:
For what it's worth, I actually like the change. It make the best use
of space IMHO... we can iterate on the dialog in 1.1 if people have
constructive criticism. It will be hard to please everyone though...
The bug report has constructive critisism, so there is no "if".
-- robin
On Jun 6, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Alex Blewitt<alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The bug is https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=347932, "Please revert EGit commit dialog", raised on Wednesday last week.
Mind you, I'm pretty sure that change snuck in around the middle of last month, right before 1.0, so it's not like there was a great deal of time for anyone to see the new work and provide feedback before the 1.0 release.
commit 4429adcab409c77575fc2c206b97234607c128c5
Author: Kevin Sawicki<kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 19 21:43:53 2011 -0700
Alex
On 6 Jun 2011, at 16:40, Swindells, Thomas wrote:
I'd have to agree with this thread,
Looking at the screenshot (http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/New_and_Noteworthy/1.0.0#Commit)
I'm not even sure exactly what each of them mean and generally wouldn't notice them.
Side by side would seem a good comprimize - these are just as, if not more important/useful than
the author/committer details (I'd expect much fewer people to need to change from the default of these).
Thomas
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On Behalf Of Robert Munteanu
Sent: 06 June 2011 15:22
To: Alex Blewitt
Cc: EGit developer discussion
Subject: Re: [egit-dev] checking 1.0.0.201106011211-rc3
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alex Blewitt<alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 4 Jun 2011, at 23:49, Matthias Sohn<matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The checkboxes were replaced by toggle buttons which isn't really
hiding them but leaving some more space for the commit message and
the file list.
Yeah, that's the awful UI I was talking about. Everyone knows what a
checkbox means on platforms and can read the explanatory text to learn
how to use the UI. No one knows what a small icon is for, and so won't be
able to learn how to use it unless they already know. Which is a checkbox and
which is an action? A UI is supposed to be intuitive.
I recently noticed the new and noteworthy screenshots as well, and I think
that the icons might be a little too obscure to be of real use.
I believe that introducing the checkboxes in a 2x2 grid would've reduced the
space taken up by 50% which should be a good enough saving.
Alex, you mentioned a bug report. Can you please link to it? I hope that even
though we're going to ship 1.0 with the current Commit Dialog layout there is
room for discussion on its future form.
Thanks,
Robert
Frankly the UI for EGit's commits sucks in the name of "needing more space
for the commit message". I mean really? Scrolling is a technique when these
things overflow - what you've saved is maybe one or two lines and made it
significantly worse for the new user, not to mention breaking style guidelines
and consistency with every other version control commit dialog.
No doubt it's too late to do anything about it now; maybe it wasn't when I
raised the bug about it earlier on. But I will say it on record that my belief is
that this was a badly executed change (from a UX perspective) with minimal
benefit (optimising for a specific case when there is between old-new lines
of text shown).
Alex
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