Re: Meld feedback

["Stephen Kennedy" <stevek gnome org>]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for taking the time to give feedback.

1) I want this too but haven't found a good way of doing it. I suspect
one might have to write a custom container.

2) The size of the scrollbar handle is the part which is visible, so I
consider this done.

3) Meld dates from before the ui manager api, so these kinds of
changes are tedious and therefore low priority.

4) Now this is easy to try if you like. We should probably only scroll
if the user has not maually scrolled yet. Please open a bug for this.

Stephen.

diff -u -u -r1.94 filediff.py
--- filediff.py 31 Aug 2006 21:29:39 -0000      1.94
+++ filediff.py 20 Oct 2006 22:57:02 -0000
@@ -668,6 +670,7 @@
            for i in range(len(files)):
                if files[i]:
                    set_highlighting_enabled(
self.textview[i].get_buffer(), files[i],
self.prefs.use_syntax_highlighting )
+        self.next_diff( gdk.SCROLL_DOWN )
        yield 0

    def _update_highlighting(self, range0, range1):



On 10/20/06, Andriy Palamarchuk <apa3a yahoo com> wrote:
> A couple more ideas to increase Meld usability:
> 3) disable "Next", "Previous" buttons if there is no next/previous changes correspondingly anymore.
> 4) when Meld loads files for comparison scroll to the first difference.
>
> Andriy
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Andriy Palamarchuk <apa3a yahoo com>
> To: stevek gnome org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:31:19 AM
> Subject: Meld feedback
>
> Steve,
>   thank you for the great tool!
> Just moved my development workstation from Windows to Linux.
> Hope your program will be one of a few things which will help to attract other developers to Linux :-)
>
> Before the switch  used visual diff program BeyondCompare (BC).
> When I started to use Meld I noticed a couple features BC has I'd like to have with Meld:
> 1) is it possible to make central bar between file text fields in the file comparison view movable? I'd like to be able to change proportions of the column from standard 50/50. This is convenient if I want to look closer at one of the revisions I'm comparing.
>
> 2) On the left side of file view BC indicates what portion of a file is currently visible. See http://www.scootersoftware.com/en/shot7w.png.
> This helps to navigate and to understand from a glance which of the changes indicated on side panels are currently visible.
>
> Hope my feedback will help to make Meld even better.
> If you prefer, I can submit my requests as bug reports.
> Thank you,
> Andriy