Bazaar Explorer prototype showing suggested Bazaar menu for IDEs

[Ian Clatworthy]

Javier Der Derian wrote:

> Today I've been checking qbzr-eclipse and figured out how to add q*
> commands into the menu.
> 
> Tomorrow I'll create a branch inside qbzr-eclipse and do the first commits.

Javier,

Thanks. I've uploaded the prototype I put together over the weekend, and
polished over the last two nights, illustrating the Bazaar menu I'd like
to see in Eclipse, Visual Studio, NetBeans and most of the other major
IDEs out there. You can grab it from
https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer.

It's a bit rough in places because I only started learning Qt on the
weekend. Even so, I hope it clearly shows the sort of thing I have in
mind. You can run the prototype and click on all the options. By design,
most of them just tell you what they are going to do without actually
doing it. (The File, View, Settings & Help menu options all work though.)

Also try running:

  bzr explorer --gtk

and clicking on the options to see how it then tells you about the
bzr-gtk applets it's planning to execute.

I hope the prototype illustrates why I'm so keen on the roadmap I've
suggested, namely:

1. Extending qbzr-eclipse with more commands
2. Then combining qbzr-eclipse and bzr-eclipse into a single awesome
   plugin.

Furthermore, once we have the necessary QBzr (and bzr-gtk) applets
available for filling in the missing parts in Bazaar Explorer, then we
also have a pretty impressive offering in Eclipse & TortoiseBzr,
assuming it makes sense for them to use a similar menu.

BTW, outside of Bazaar Explorer and inside Eclipse say, the Settings &
Tools menus ought to be appended onto the end of the Bazaar menu (as
sub-menus).

Ian C.

PS: I've attached a screenshot to whet your appetite.
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