New bazaar web interface style

[Martin Pool]

On 25 Jan 2006, Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at alice.it> wrote:

> > In annotate view, it would be nice if the tooltips for the annotation
> > markers showed the first line or two of the commit message.  Rather than
> > showing the start of the revision id perhaps you could show the
> > committer user name and the date, as gannotate does (I think).
> 
> This means that for every entry in the annotate we have to load a revision
> entry: I fear that this will be too slow...

Well, you should only have to load each of the revisions still present
in the annotation of a particular file version, and then each only once.
This will still take some time but I think not too much.

> > In many of these interfaces I think it can be hard to get a sense of
> > where you are and what you're looking at.  There are two directions you
> > can look in: along the history (of a branch, or objects within it) or at
> > one version of something (the branch inventory, or a file.) 
> 
> Could you provide an examples ? I agree that something looking at the history ( as 
> in the diff page where are two two revid to look ) is not so obvious, but 
> in my interface in every page you can navigate in the history... So I don't
> understand very well your point: but that doesn't mean that you are wrong...

I didn't mean you *can't* navigate, just that it might be made easier to
see how to.  I'll think more about it.

-- 
Martin
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