User feedback on filtered views UI needed please

[Ian Clatworthy]

Hi all,

It's been 7 weeks since I put a patch up implementing
filtered views and I'm yet to receive any feedback. Well,
except for Jelmer saying it would be nice to have in 1.12
and poolie saying (before Christmas) that it looks pretty
good conceptually.

I'd really like to get some feedback from our *users* please:

* Is the proposed UI right?
* Any need to change it?
* Any ideas for refining it either immediately or later?

See http://bazaar-vcs.org/FilteredViews for information
on how filtered views are proposed to work and how to
test them. I've submitted an updated patch to the mailing
list to make it easier to apply to the current bzr.dev.
Alternatively, you can grab the branch from
lp:~ian-clatworthy/bzr/bzr.views.

Unlike the content filtering changes say, I think the code
implementing this feature has a low chance of breaking things.
I'm therefore planning to land this in bzr.dev in a week if
the feedback above is positive and it's not reviewed by
then. That will then allow most of the 1.13 development cycle
for bzr.dev users to play with it and for any serious bugs
to be addressed.

Ian C.