Re: [anjuta-devel] New "Import project" dialog

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 15:36 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > the current "Import project" dialog looks a bit cluttered and (at least
> > on my version of Adwaita) confusing since the unselected radio button is
> > invisible. I'd like to suggest a more simple approach which I sketched
> > up here: http://jensge.org/anjuta-new-import.png
>
> First, thanks a lot for taking a look. I cannot see the problem with the
> adwaita theme here (Fedora 15) but the dialog isn't perfect anyhow.
>
> What I still don't like in the mockup:
> * The project name is very prominent in the beginning while it is always
> automatically filled and the user shouldn't have to change that
> normally.

Yes, true. Didn't think about that.

> * VCS import is still very basic as you have to know the complete path
> to the VCS system while it would be cool to have some kind of "Browse"
> button or at least shortcuts to the popular service (GNOME Git,
> gitorious, etc.).

Something like the "repository manager" in eclipse? (Failing to find a
proper screenshot currently).

Well if we have that, that would solve the file chooser problem as well
since it could be always a button, firing up a FileChooser for the
"Directory" mode and a repository chooser for any VCS.

> * For the file-chooser problem it might be a solution to use an
> invisible GtkNotebook that switches pages according to the state of the
> toggle buttons.

hm, not sure if the image made it clear that it's always the same dialog
and you just change the kind of import via the dropdown.