Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: polyton[ey]

[Jon Bright]

graydon hoare wrote:

> (curious: show of hands, how many people here would really like a GUI?)

It's pretty much the only sane way to be doing cherry-picking, so yes, 
I'd like one.  Yes, one could do this with ncurses, but this kind of 
thing gets painful quickly - plus a GUI is, bizarrely, more likely to be 
portable :-)

For general operations like committing, updating, diffing, logging, 
etc., a GUI's not *that* interesting to me.  For stuff with trees, 
though, the natural interface would be a GUI.  Even normal operations 
are easier with a GUI for the example that you want to perform an 
operation on 20 files out of a directory of 200 - 20 clicks are 
generally lots faster than 20 "type start of file then press tab then 
uniqueify it a bit more, then tab, lather, rinse, repeat until you have 
the whole filename" operations...

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