Improving dt's UI

[David Wolever]

(sorry, forgot to reply to the list the first time)

On 4-Jul-08, at 5:55 AM, Ivan Glushkov wrote:

>>  So, if I had my way, these commands would be added:
>>  - close: accepts --fixed, --invalid or --dropped (but defaults to --
>>  fixed)
>>
> May be the editor should be also invoked to enter some message?
>
Ah, yes, I forgot to mention that bit :)


>>  - ed: edit a ticket, including all the headers and the body
>>
> Do you mean creating new comment? Hm, we really can include all
> previous comments and the body into the new comment (after some
> delimiter - so they'll not be included in the real comment). This will
> allow to see the issue in the whole.
>
mmm that's a good point -- I hadn't considered the difference between  
'editing the content' and 'adding a comment'.
Maybe it could be both?
I've attached (because my stupid mailer likes to mung up text) a  
mockup of what it might look like.

The downside is that it's a little bit crowded -- it's not clear that  
you CAN edit the NEW comment section, while you can't edit the other  
ones.  I don't know off hand how to fix that, though.

(hey, as a side question -- is there a wiki somewhere that could be  
used for this sort of thing?)


>>  (I'd like this because my poor mac takes a second or two to start  
>> up,
>>  and it's really frustrating when I've got to run two or three
>>  commands in sequence).
>>
> May be we should better speed up the launching time of dt? I don't
> think that creating new interface is good idea, as it will complicate
> everything.
>
Speeding up the launching of DT isn't a bad idea at all...  If I have  
a bit of time over the weekend I'll do some profiling and see what  
can be shaved off.

I'll also whip up the shell (I _expect_ it will only be 50 or so  
lines with the help of shlex) to see how useful it would actually be  
(it's entirely possible the answer is "not at all") then we can get  
back to talking about this particular feature.


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