[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Monticello-cmm.726.mcz

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Wed Jul 1 11:40:10 UTC 2020


On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Chris Muller wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:59 PM Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>       On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Chris Muller wrote:
>
>       > Hi Eliot,
>       > The order of repositories is part of the model, sorting them conceptually breaks a couple of MC's use-cases.  Would list-filtering help you find the repository you seek amongst your list of 40 repositories?
>
>       What model is it part of?
> 
> 
> Monticello's.  MCWorkingCopyBrowser's.
>  
>       And if it is, how come the GUI doesn't let you change that order?
> 
> 
> It's "demote to bottom" on the menu.  But it seemed to have gotten broke due to the #repositories list always being sorted.

That's a really poor way to make the list sortable. In my opinion there 
should be the following options if that's the goal: alphabetize, move 
down, move up, move to front, move to end (this is the one called demote 
now which is not a good name IMO).


Levente

> 
> My hope is that Eliot's use-case is for only when there are no WorkingCopy's selected, thus showing _all_ repositories -- because we can sort that output.  But sorting as far as when an individual WorkingCopy is selected, it
> breaks one or two use cases.
> 
>  - Chris
> 
>


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