[darcs-users] darcsweb - A gitweb-alike web interface for darcs

[Gaetan Lehmann]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:26:08 +0200, Alberto Bertogli  
<albertogli at telpin.com.ar> wrote:
>> however, I would make some small requests:
>> + directories and files are not clearly identified as link on which we  
>> can
>> click. They should be underlined (or something else) by default
>
> I disagree with you here. Yes, the first time you use darcsweb (or  
> gitweb,
> for that matter) you don't notice inmediately that those are links (not
> only files and directories, but pretty much anything in the shortlog,
> summary and several places in the log, among others); however, once you
> know this the interface is quite clean and nice to look at.
>
> If every link were to be underlined or something like that, the page  
> would
> be much harder to read without real reason, because 99.9% of the time  
> (ie.
> always after the first 10 minutes you use it and realize the links) you
> already know those are links.

But there is lot of text on which you can't click. In summary for example,  
time and authors are not links. Or perhap's they should be links... it  
would be useful to see all changes done 1 month ago or all changes done by  
an author
In a tree view, file (or directory) permissions are not links, but have  
the same style than the name. Perhap's it should also be a link ?

>
>
>> + darcsweb should stop darcs when a request to a page is cancelled: a
>> darcs diff for example can take a lot of time and doesn't need to run if
>> the user cancel is request.
>
> I don't know how the CGI interface is supposed to let the application  
> know
> about this... so I'm open to suggestions =)
>

I don't know how, but the jobs I launch in a cgi are killed if I cancel  
the request before the end of the job. It was a problem for me, but in  
that case, it would be useful :-)


>
>> + what "Crece desde el pueblo el futuro / crece desde el pie" mean ?  
>> can't
>> it be translated in english ?
>
> I put that when I started to code, where I was going to place the footer
> option, and then it got stucked. I happen to like it, so I really have no
> problem with it being there, but I agree completely it should be
> configurable =)
>
> People have sent me patches both to make the repo list text and the  
> footer
> configurable, which I will apply with some modifications (since I want
> both to be optional) sometime today or tomorrow.
>
>
> The text is from a song called "Crece desde el pie" (which means  
> something
> like "Grows from the foot", with "foot" here meaning the lowest part of
> anything, in spanish it's used, for instance, to refer to the bottom part
> of a mountain) by Alfredo Zitarrosa. The line can be translated literally
> to something like "The future grows from the people / grows from the  
> foot"
> (it's a lousy translation, it's quite literal, but I think you can get  
> the
> idea).
>
> I was listening to that song (which I happen to like a lot) when I was
> thinking of a default footer, and as you can see it's very appropiate =)
>
>
> Thanks,
> 		Alberto
>



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