[Monotone-devel] Re: monotone-viz 0.6

[graydon hoare]

Olivier Andrieu wrote:

> I forgot to mention, I released a new version of monotone-viz¹. This
> one includes a couple of features that were requested, notably
> keyboard navigation of the graph and some automatic colouring. I also
> migrated my server (it uses the new netsync protocol now).

this is great news. I've played with the tool a bit, and quite enjoy it. 
 I have some suggestions (if you're bored). obviously I ought to do 
these myself, but I'm finding my hands quite full with everything else :)

 - perhaps the graph layout should happen left->right, not top->bottom.
   most screens are wider than they are tall, and the effect is
   magnified by taskbar, window decoration, menubar, toolbar, and
   vertival window split; the net result is that the graph area is
   about 3.5x as wide as it is tall on my monitor.

 - I mostly like the layout, but I feel there's still information
   lacking. there's a lot the user might want to interact with "live",
   w/o invoking specific menu commands. the style I was aiming for with
   lattice was to have a tree view of the entire project (all the files
   in the current manifest) in the lower left pane, with markers coding
   whether each received an add, del, or patch, and a tabed set of views
   in the lower right. the intended tabbed views were:
     - certs/changelog, like your lower left view
     - full contents of file selected in lower left pane
     - diff of selected file against previous version

-graydon