[platform-vcm-dev] New Synchronize View

[Gabriele Garuglieri <gabriele.garuglieri@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
first of all i'm basing anything that follows on the 3.0 M3 Build id: 
200308281813, then before bothering you with new bugs/enhancements 
requests, i see you already have plenty of them, i'd like to know if 
there's already any work in progress in the New Synchronize View for the 
following points:

1-  in the Preferences Team/CVS/Label Decorations, Synchronize View tab 
there's still the "Show all synchronization information in a resource 
label" checkbox that when checked was producing the sometimes nice to 
have [incoming change], etc labels in the old view, but doesn't have any 
effect in the new view. Have you any plan to restore its function?

2- Now there's the possibility to have three different looks in the new 
view, tree, compressed tree, table. There's the need that the "Toggle 
layout..." switch becomes a drop down menu that allows to choose between 
the three looks in a single step, instead of having to go into view 
preferences to change between tree/compressed tree mode. Or perhaps you 
could also add the three looks switch to the view context menu.

3- i badly miss the "remove from view" context menu entry from the old 
view. It was much faster and simple to exclude something from the sync 
process view than bothering with editing the working set or selecting 
the resource to operate on.
Let me explain, suppose you have many changes to commit  from which you 
want to exclude a few ones, now you have three ways to operate, if i 
didn't miss anything:
   a- Edit the active working set
   b- select all the resource that you want to commit and operate on 
them, rather bothersome if those you want to exclude are intermixed.
   c- select all the resource that you want to commit, sync on them so 
the working set is automatically reduced then select the tree root and 
commit
I tried all the ways and i still think that the old way of select those 
resources to exclude, exclude them from the view, select the root and 
commit is the faster and easier.
Any plan to restore this function?

4- the modified (the small star icon) and the repository decorator (the 
small yellow cylinder?) in the sync view lay on top of the outgoing 
change black arrow, and in case of additions and deletions almost 
obscuring the the "+" "-" signs that may be present in the arrow.
I think that those decorators are redundant and clutter uselessly the 
view since if the resource is present in the view it implicitly means 
that some change is outstanding and the black arrow itself  is enough to 
show the type of change that's going  in the repository.
What do you think about?

Thanks for your attention,  Gabriele.