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Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy) wrote : Re: [Bug 388480] [NEW] [proposal] "annotate file..." menu

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Ian, recently I've asked you about Annotate menu and you decided to
> remove it completely. I have new use case and new ideas about this menu
> item.
>
> bzr explorer can provide this feature in 2 steps:
>
> 1) When user selects menu "Annotate file..." then standard Open File
> dialog should be invoked (with current dir at tree basedir). Then user
> can select the file it's interested to annotate.
> 2) bzr explorer (BzrE) will invoke qannotate then passing it selected
> filename.
>
> As another variant we can implement `qannotate --select-file` in QBzr.
> What do you think?
>

I'd like qannotate to not require a file on the command line.
 The user should be able to select a file to annotate inside qannotate
itself, both on start-up and after browsing another file.

I'll happily put Annotate back on the menu once that feature exists.

Ian C.