Comment 2 for bug 388480

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Alexander Belchenko (bialix) wrote : Re: [Bug 388480] [NEW] [proposal] "annotate file..." menu

Ian Clatworthy пишет:
> 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.

Selecting file on start-up is OK for me. There is one possible problem
with situation when user has treeless branch. In this case we can force
qbrowse window.

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

OK, here is bug report for qbzr:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qbzr/+bug/388829