Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitweb: Show trailing slash when listing tree entry in tree listing

[Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>]

--- Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 2/3 to 1/3 if you're counting categories, but you haven't presented any
> evidence that the number of people in each category is the same.
> 
> Besides which, I think that people with a high degree of exposure to the
> web tend to look for the things that look like buttons or links. The
> near-universal sign for links on the web is underlining (and typically

Then let's universally underline absolutely _every_ link in gitweb
which is clickable, regardless of where it appears, the font, typeset
and size.

Who will be my hero and submit that patch?  I'll surely commit it
and make the people happy.

> an alternate color). Looking at the repo.or.cz file lists, I see that
> none of the files is highlighted but the directories are. What am I to
> guess (either by intuition or by "figuring it out") except that there is
> some difference between clicking the two? I think we are failing a
> consistency test.

Let's see:

Each line which starts with a "d" also has some kind of underlined
text in the second column.

Each line which starts with a "-" has text which is not underlined
in the second column.

Which implies a connection between the "d" and the property of
underlining.

Unless you have "a priori" knowlege of "underline means clickable" there
is no chance of thinking that "not-underlined means not-clickable".

   Luben