Re: Branches UI

2009-03-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Guenter Milde writes: > >> how you want to do it more helpful? when i need new branch inset i want to > >> do it directly by one menu click. > > > > How about a unified functionality that would also fix bugs 4462 and 5851: > > This seems to be a better way to proceed

Branch sets (was: Branches UI)

2009-03-19 Thread Christian Ridderström
Hi, Something I would have found useful when I used branches doing my CV was the ability to enable/disable several branches at once. The CV was a good place to use branches, as it easily allowed different parts to be swapped in and out. However, I wasn´t able to do it all in different branches

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Guenter Milde writes: >> how you want to do it more helpful? when i need new branch inset i want to >> do it directly by one menu click. > > How about a unified functionality that would also fix bugs 4462 and 5851: This seems to be a better way to proceed, IMO. Define add 'Other...' to Insert>Bra

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > would you be satisfied if this was the default menu action while the lfun is > > still able to do it for the lazybones like me? > > What I dislike is that you rely on a special branch name to be a keyword > for another action. but thats exactly what i need :( pavel

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Pavel Sanda writes: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> having menu entries which >> do only one thing has some merit in terms of clarity. > > would you be satisfied if this was the default menu action while the lfun is > still able to do it for the lazybones like me? What I dislike is that you rel

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-18, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Pavel Sanda writes: >> >> What is this branch_inset_insert thing. It looks kind of wrong. >> > >> > the purpose is to automatically insert the branch inset after establishing >> > new branch. >> I am not so sure that this is help

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > having menu entries which > do only one thing has some merit in terms of clarity. would you be satisfied if this was the default menu action while the lfun is still able to do it for the lazybones like me? pavel

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Pavel Sanda writes: > how you want to do it more helpful? when i need new branch inset i want to > do it directly by one menu click. Having one-click way to define a new branch type and insert a branch inset of this type is not on my personal list of life-saving features. Two clicks would not be

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Pavel Sanda writes: > >> What is this branch_inset_insert thing. It looks kind of wrong. > > > > the purpose is to automatically insert the branch inset after establishing > > new branch. bit hackish, yes, but i didn't find better way how to do it. > > perhaps you hav

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Pavel Sanda writes: > > - introduce actvation/deactivation through the context menu > > (2 JMarc - i tried your proposal through branch-activate lfun, but > > when i come to thepoint when i needed to copy the whole code from > > next-inset-toggle lfun i returned

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-17 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-16, Richard Heck wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2009-03-16, Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> the attached patches: >>> - introduce new menu item for defining new branch, so you can directly >>> put new branch into the document. I do not know where the new item is currently inserted, but p

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Pavel Sanda writes: >> What is this branch_inset_insert thing. It looks kind of wrong. > > the purpose is to automatically insert the branch inset after establishing > new branch. bit hackish, yes, but i didn't find better way how to do it. > perhaps you have some idea? I am not so sure that this

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >>> Why not branch-new-insert ? This one can fire branch-new. >>> >> >> now you are talking about lfun or parameter name? >> > LFUNs yes. hmm i somehow didn't like the overpopulation - we would have branch-insert, branch-new-insert, branch-new. pavel ps: i h

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Pavel Sanda schreef: Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Pavel Sanda schreef: Richard Heck wrote: What does one already do to insert a branch inset? Can't we just use that, and if the name given isn't already known, add it to the branch list? the problem here that w

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > Pavel Sanda schreef: >> Richard Heck wrote: >> >>> What does one already do to insert a branch inset? Can't we just use >>> that, and if the name given isn't already known, add it to the branch >>> list? >>> >> >> the problem here that we dont know the name

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Pavel Sanda schreef: Richard Heck wrote: What does one already do to insert a branch inset? Can't we just use that, and if the name given isn't already known, add it to the branch list? the problem here that we dont know the name user has given to us, so command-sequence etc can't be u

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Heck wrote: > What does one already do to insert a branch inset? Can't we just use that, > and if the name given isn't already known, add it to the branch list? the problem here that we dont know the name user has given to us, so command-sequence etc can't be used. pavel

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: i started to use branches lately and i found out that our UI for them is bit annoying since every other change needs tobe done through preferences dislog. the attached patches: - introduce new menu item for defining new branch, so you can direct

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > i started to use branches lately and i found out that our UI for them > > is bit annoying since every other change needs tobe done through > > preferences dislog. > > > > the attached patches: > > - introduce new menu item for defining new branch, so you can directly

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Pavel Sanda writes: > i started to use branches lately and i found out that our UI for them > is bit annoying since every other change needs tobe done through > preferences dislog. > > the attached patches: > - introduce new menu item for defining new branch, so you can directly > put new branch

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Pavel Sanda writes: > - introduce actvation/deactivation through the context menu > (2 JMarc - i tried your proposal through branch-activate lfun, but > when i come to thepoint when i needed to copy the whole code from > next-inset-toggle lfun i returned to the idea of enhancing > our own

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Richard Heck
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-03-16, Pavel Sanda wrote: the attached patches: - introduce new menu item for defining new branch, so you can directly put new branch into the document. Great. - introduce actvation/deactivation through the context menu Great as well. How d

Re: Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-03-16, Pavel Sanda wrote: > the attached patches: > - introduce new menu item for defining new branch, so you can directly > put new branch into the document. Great. > - introduce actvation/deactivation through the context menu Great as well. How does it behave in a parent/child set

Branches UI

2009-03-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
hi, i started to use branches lately and i found out that our UI for them is bit annoying since every other change needs tobe done through preferences dislog. the attached patches: - introduce new menu item for defining new branch, so you can directly put new branch into the document. - introdu