Bazaar Explorer by Pictures

[Alexander Belchenko]

Philippe Lhoste пишет:
> On 03/07/2009 12:32, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>> It certainly isn't ready for Grandma
> 
> Interesting thought.
> In a far, nebulous future, it might be interesting to customize the
> interface to accommodate some common, limited workflows (not unlike the
> Hat concept, perhaps) like mine (single developer on a single machine,
> or, now, with a shared online branch and local branches on two
> computers), that would hide some complexities of a fully featured VCS
> (checkouts, light or heavy, bound branches, repositories, etc.).
> 
> Sometime, all you want is some simple way to keep versions of your
> files, and be able to go back or see what have changed, and that's
> all... :-)

It seems I have similar idea.

Yesterday I've chatted with Vincent in IRC and said that now I'd like to teach some of people at my
company who is not programmers but schematics/PCB designers to use bzr for their work. Because their
work is basically solo workflow with central server as backup location, I think current
full-featured bzr-explorer interface will be too much for them (even though it's translated to Russian).

So, make it possible to use bzr as smart backup solution by non-programmers or my mother (who is
accountant) I'd like to have very simple wizard-like GUI client. With limited set of commands: add,
commit, sync with central server, with log and working tree views, and with ability to see older
version of documents (in native applications) easily. There is one big problem: in most cases such
people works with "binary" documents, so diff there has no sense most of the time. For [web]
designers who often work with images there is possible to visualize difference between images.
But for other people much better to have ability to save some comments about file content (file
properties?). Unfortunately bzr has no concept of binary files, and lacks file properties.

(Thinking further: maybe svn is better choice there?)