custom diff/merge tools in qconfig are too complex to setup
Bug #416927 reported by
Ian Clatworthy
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #489915: [master] external diff/merge configuration needs serious rework.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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QBzr |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I find the UI for configuring an external diff or merge tool in qconfig
difficult to use and I'd like to fix it. What I'd prefer to see is:
* a combo box of commonly available tools (ala the Email clients)
* a text field showing the actual command.
The combo box could be editable so you could specify the name for a
custom tool if required. Changing the selection in the combo box would
change the text field value.
Both difftools and extmerge work a bit like this - they have mapping
tables from toolname -> command line for popular tools. It shouldn't be
too hard to reuse those I hope.
Changed in qbzr: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: qconfig |
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One of the primary reasons this is bad is that Explorer's welcome page puts qconfig right at the front, immediately after a link to the help. So qconfig is the first experience many users will get of qbzr/Bazaar and many of those will have a GUI diff tool (say) that they already love. So making that hard to configure is not the user experience we want users to get as a first impression IMO.