Re: Meld Feature Request - Comments to diffs

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 29 March 2018 at 21:57, Piotr Pałucki <piotrek palucki gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am quite fresh to the Meld community, so please excuse my fluffs.
>
> Do you think is it possible to add inline commenting, that some other
> systems(e.g. Atlassian's Bitbucket) already have?
> A lot of us use Meld for code reviews, so why don't move the comments and
> remarks from separate mails to Meld natively?
> An example of such an inline comment can be seen here:
>
> https://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/10/30/building-inline-comments-for-pull-requests-and-commits/
>
> I have some concepts and ideas in mind, but I would like to hear an opinion
> and a high-level insights of more experienced developers.

I'm not certain how you were envisioning the comments, etc. would move
to Meld. I feel like the way to do this would be to have Meld become a
client for whatever online code review system was in use, and would
fetch and push comments to that.

I think this is probably a *lot* of work, but I can also imagine how
much of it would stick together. GtkTextView should do a reasonable
job of allowing inline comments (via a child widget and a popover or
something), so provided that the server-side API is sensible and we
didn't want to support drafts or comments against old versions... this
feels possible.

cheers,
Kai