Hi,
I've created this thread to have a common centralized place to discuss the development and possible future features of DR800+.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93627
First comments:
VCS & Code repository:
I've been reading docs and testing both mercurial and git last days. I prefer mercurial.
Personal opinion:
- git is not easily installed on windows machine (not a problem for me, but I prefer to stay as universal as possible)
- don't like stage files concepts (easily changed with an alias, but that's not the point... over-engineered?)
- revisions don't include revision number (or is me who doesn't find?)
- quite similar on features, but mercurial seems easier and more predictable
- git has github and gitorious, that looks better
Some external comparisons:
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http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/
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http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
Hosting:
- bitbucket. I like it, but free plan looks limited
- googlecode. well, it's google... you know, world domination and such
Some possible new features:
- clock in statusbar
Main problem is status bar free room. I will test if it fits with current 10 icons when reading docs, or else removing "Menu" text (not the icon).
It will be another system icon, at the top right.
- additional cycling button
As my quick tests removing some icons/actions from the current one, I don't know if this is really possible, as some behaviours are hardcoded on the uds binary and we can't modify it.
- port of Mackx's features
I haven't been able to see them, but they look quite nice. First I'll try "Apps".
I will be 2 weeks away, maybe with internet connection but not much time, and neither access to my devel environment... Time to relax, read and muse...
Iņigo