[VCS] annotation widget

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Sat Nov 17 11:24:16 UTC 2007


On 17.11.07 01:16:58, David Nolden wrote:
> On Saturday 17 November 2007 01:08:38 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just implemented svn annotate in the reworked svn plugin (I didn't yet
> > check wether dukju already had a widget for this) and I wonder wether we
> > should try to get the kate devs to provide an API for the following:
> >
> > a) add a "annotation label" to the border, similar to the line numbers,
> > in the svn-case it would carry the revison
> > b) show an arbitrary tooltip (html-formatted probably) when hovering
> > this annotation-label.
> > c) eventually some way to specify a color for each label, this would be
> > used to group labels with the same content.
> >
> > IMHO it would be cool if we could show the output of the VCS annotate
> > action directly in the editor and thus remove the need for a toolview or
> > dialog which again displays all the content from the editor and
> > additionally the blame-info.
> >
> > I asked kate devs already if there maybe is such an interface, but got
> > no reply and so before trying it again I'd like input from the other
> > kdevelop devs.
> >
> > Andreas
> 
> Isn't this nearly what the problem-reporter does in kdev3? So there might be 
> something thats nearly usable for this. :)

Hmm, I guess I have to look at the interface later today.

Andreas

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