[RFC] qbzr GUI dialogs: smarter --ui-mode?

[Maritza Mendez]

As a bzr-explorer user, I have been tempted to make a request like this.  I
have not, because I actually want the status output of most (not all, but
most) bzr commands.  For just one example, seeing "Committed revision 3271."
actually gives me a warm fuzzy.  I would not want to lose that in qcommit.
Having to click 'ok' is usually a small enough inconvenience for the comfort
of having affirmative feedback for important operations.

~M


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:

> I'd like to ask users of Bazaar GUI based on QBzr, especially users of
> Tortoise Bzr and Bazaar Explorer.
>
> Currently we have --ui-mode flag for most of q-dialogs to prevent
> auto-closing the dialog when operation has finished. The main intent was to
> provide a chance to user see an error message if any, and maybe re-launch
> the action with other options.
>
> Last few days I'm using and dogfooding bzr-explorer for my work. I found
> --ui-mode for some action is very boring in the case when operation has
> finished successfully. For example: qcommit stays on the screen after it has
> committed my changes successfully. That's boring. If there are no errors
> then I'd like to have it closed automatically when operation finished.
> Unfortunately our --ui-mode flag prevents this.
>
> So my intent is to slightly change the behavior of --ui-mode and auto-close
> the dialogs on success.
>
> But this change will effectively breaks old behavior and I don't like to
> break backward compatibility without a note. So I think the best way for me
> is to provide a configurable knob to change the behavior of --ui-mode.
>
> Have you any opinion on the existing behavior? Does it important for you to
> see the success result on the screen and close the dialogs manually (with
> Esc or Alt+F4)?
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qbzr/+bug/772259
>
> Alexander
> --
> All the dude wanted was his rug back
>
>
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