File Manager Integration for Linux (TortoiseHG)

Summary

Last milestone: Packages for Ubuntu/Debian.

Current development: Polishing the UI.

Current implementation

Source code

• Nautilus improvements (Fixed the Nautilus support for submenus used in extensions):

  • [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508878 The bug report]

  • [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=112340 the test case]

  • [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=112370 Patch for libnautilus-extensions]

  • A new version with this bug fixed was released by June 30 (Nautilus 2.22.4).

• [http://www.calcifer.org/hg/tortoisehg-gpoo/ TortoiseHG with my patches as changesets]

• [Debianization of TortoiseHG]

Ubuntu packages

There are packages available for Ubuntu at [https://launchpad.net/~gpoo/+archive Personal Package Archive]:

• nautilus. A fixed version with support for submenus working fine in extensions.

• mercurial-tortoisehg. A version to use hgtk from the shell.

• nautilus-mercurial-tortoisehg. A plugin for working

It is possible to use those packages to build them for Debian or any other Debian based distribution.

These packages have some caveats:

• hgtk about doesn't work, because it has problems to load the COPYING.txt file. As a document file, it is stored compressed, in a different directory whic

• Icons are not shown in Nautilus' menus.

Observations

Packages and distributions:

• The paths used to load icons and files should not be hardcoded, because packages must be relocalatables. The same is applied for distutils (setup.py).

• The hard part is the use of the environment variables TORTOISEHG_PATH and THG_ICON_PATH. Probably having a single file (init.py) could be helpful.

Nautilus menus:

• There is no order to load the menu items.
  • It doesn't matter the order the menuitems are created.
  • I thought it was sorted according the name of each menuitem, but using names such as 10foo, 20bar, ... neither seems to work.

Milestones

TBD.

User Interface improvements

From a technical point of view, it seems it is not clearity when a GtkDialog and/or a GtkWindow is used in TortoiseHG. Some of them are GtkDialog and some of them GtkWindow without any clear distinction.

=== Stuff than can be improved ==

TBD: Add screenshots with mockups.