Getting ready for v1.3.9, new UI post v1.3.9
David Aguilar
There's some new goodies in git-cola that's slated to go into
the v1.3.9 release.
v1.3.9 has been tagged and is available on github.
I'll be releasing tarballs and installers this weekend
once I've had a chance to update the documentation,
etc.
The newest addition coming in v1.3.9 is the 'classic' tool,
which can be found under Tools->Cola Classic
(my friend calls it the "classy" view, you can too).
It's a nifty tree view that shows you the entire repository
in a simple tree view. Users that expect to be able to
see all files (even unmodified ones) would probably feel
right at home with this new tool.
Vim users will enjoy the shortcut keys for navigation,
though you can always use the arrow keys if you aren't
vim-inclined ;-)
Github issues closed in v1.3.9:
http://github.com/davvid/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/2
Post v1.3.9 (tentatively v1.4.0, but it hasn't been tagged yet)
is where the new cola UI has been brewing. cola has a brand
new interface based on dockwidgets. It's flexible,
configurable, and it solves the issue where we couldn't
show both the diff and commit panes at the same time.
Each widget can be pulled off separately and docked into any
location in the gui.
Some changes with this, though, are that we lost the "drawer"
widget thing, where the log output was previously stashed away
into a separate "drawer" at the bottom of the main ui.
The "Command Output" widget is now just like any other widget,
so you can choose to close it or place it anywhere in the ui.
The downside, of course, is that you won't see output unless
the widget is shown. I haven't found a way to bring
dockwidgets to the front, but I think the change is sensible.
Maybe we can do something better, so I'm open to ideas (and
patches! ;) ). The reason I mention this is that we did
have a round where we added a cola.showoutput configuration
variable that is no longer being used.
All of the new UI work is on github's master branch.
In addition to the new UI, cola grew a new command-line flag to
make the 'classic' tool easier to get to:
$ git cola --classic
The 'classic' tool is currently a standalone widget and is not a
dockwidget. That's because it was written before the dockwidget
stuff came online, so it's possible that the UI will be reworked
further so that it, too, is just another dockwidget.
We'll see.
Give it a try and let me know what you think =)
Github issues closed post v1.3.9:
http://github.com/davvid/git-cola/issues/closed#issue/5
As always, feel free to vote on issues, submit patches (using
git send-email), and suggest new features on cola's github page.
But most of all...
Have fun,
--
David