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Bug 37949

Summary: Provide vcs filesystem "customization" in a different way
Product: obsolete Reporter: David-john Burrowes <davidjon>
Component: vcscoreAssignee: issues@obsolete <issues>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: blocker CC: gtichy, jrojcek
Priority: P3 Keywords: UI
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 37943    

Description David-john Burrowes 2003-12-10 00:36:11 UTC 
As noted in issue 37943 the notion of "customize"
is used very inconsistently through the IDE. In
many cases, important functionality is placed in
fairly "difficult to discover" locations "behind"
a customize menu item.

The VCS filesystems have a "customize" item which
is used to change settings associated with the
filesystem.  I believe that these settings are
duplicated in the Properties window for the
filesystem.

I recognize that it is important that users be
able to change these properties associated with
the filesystem.  However, it is probably not good
to have this information shown redundantly in both
the properties window and the customize window. 
And it seems unfortunate that this information is
as hidden as it is behind the "customize" item. 
However, I do not know for sure what the right
alternate design is at this point.  The most
obvious thing to do is to allow the "properties"
menu item to display the stuff that is currently
in the customizer.
Comment 1 Martin Entlicher 2003-12-10 12:18:30 UTC 
Gabo, Jan, any comments on this from HIE point of view?

Properties are not always suitable for complex customization.
Sometimes it's better to have dialog with various UI components then a
pure list of properties in a property sheet.
Comment 2 Martin Entlicher 2004-11-01 14:21:12 UTC 
There is now Edit action on the Versioning Manager instead. Properties
are on a separate tab in that dialog. So the design is hopefully more
clean now.