Bazaar Explorer prototype showing suggested Bazaar menu for IDEs

[Ian Clatworthy]

Russel Winder wrote:
> Moral:  It would be wise for there to be one.  Clearly on M$ Windows
> this is TortoiseBzr.  Should there be just one for Ubuntu, Debian,
> Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, SuSE, Solaris, etc.  And then there is Mac OS X
Hi Russel,

Are many people using Olive? It doesn't seem to have received much love
recently?

FWIW, my primary interest is having a consistent, fully-featured,
top-level GUI interface. That interface can and should be implemented in
each native shell and IDE. We also need a stand alone, cross-platform
GUI tool, which ideally works much the same way. I think that tool needs
to be lighter than running a full-blown IDE while being less
directory-tree centric than a shell.

To start with, I threw one together in Qt because my immediate interest
is extending qbzr-eclipse. I could have started from Olive and used its
toolkit (py-gtk?) instead, assuming Olive users would be happy to see it
evolve along the lines I prototyped. I have no strong opinions on Qt vs
GTK at this stage. (My focus is getting the right UI design and being
able to switch profiles to test out the various applets we've built over
the years.)

My other motivation here is entirely self-interest: I'm trying to go
command line "cold turkey" w.r.t. Bazaar and to see how far I can get.
Right now, I can't do that with our current offerings (bzr-eclipse &
Olive) - they just don't go close to covering the tasks I perform on the
command line. OTOH, I think I *can* drop using the command line with an
enhanced qbzr-eclipse and another weekend of development on Bazaar Explorer.

Ian C.