Making paper the default style?

[TK Soh]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 03 November 2008 at 22:26, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> (adding back the list)
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 22:20, Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> wrote:
>> > I very much like being able to stay at the point in the log where I've
>> > just navigated to. Right now it takes two clicks to get back to tip,
>> > but if we remove the revision from the log link there is _no_ simple
>> > way to get to the log around the point of the changeset you're
>> > inspecting.
>>
>> I think that for users, having log link to tip is much more intuitive.

I somehow agree on this.

>> I think it might be better to have log point to tip and add another
>> log link (something like 'contextual log' or 'context' or 'revision
>> log') added to the second list of navigational items.
>
> as long as there's a way to switch views without losing my current
> location, I'm reasonably happy. I guess I can't really gauge how
> intuitive the interface is. The current format makes sense to me.
>
>> > I'd be happy with a 'home' link (goes to the default page at tip), or
>> > maybe making the repo url take you home.
>>
>> What do you mean by the repo url? Did you mean the logo?
>
> No, I mean the text just to the right of the logo:
>
> <logo> repo url
> <logo> ---------
> <logo> view
>
> <menu> ...

Just a thought. I wonder have the active revision indicated right on
top of Log might be use a clearer idea? Right now the active revision
is shown on the LHS of the navigation buttons.