From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: gitk highlight feature Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:55:29 +1000 Message-ID: <17496.7073.507895.484698@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <17495.61142.677439.171773@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 03 04:56:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fb7Wr-0007Q6-5j for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 04:55:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965078AbWECCzi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 22:55:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965077AbWECCzi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 22:55:38 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:56274 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965076AbWECCzi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 22:55:38 -0400 Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 6E96967A40; Wed, 3 May 2006 12:55:37 +1000 (EST) To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > The obvious way to do it would be to just have two buttons per view: one > exclusive one (for the main view - only one selected at a time), and the > other one for the "highlight" one where you could allow multiple views to > be selected for highlighting. That's hard to do in a menu, but I could do it in a separate pane. Or, I could draw a series of tabs between the menu bar and the graph/headline/author/date panes. Each tab would have the view name, a radiobutton to select it for highlighting, and a close button. Paul.