GTK+ annotate plugin

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:32, Dan Loda wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 10:48 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > Apparently it's no longer called granny mode.  Anyhow, it looks like
> > this:
> >
> > http://people.ubuntu.com/~mbp/2005-10-25-104233_1674x988_scrot.png
> >
> > Lines with hot (red) colors are recent, and cool colors are old.  You
> > can imagine having a choice different schemes for entertainment, or to
> > suit people with partial or total color insensitivity.
> >
> > There is also a choice of the time scale over which to show changes.
>
> My first go at this is at:
>
> http://dan.loda.name/bzr/gannotate.colors/
>
> It's a fairly straight copy of vc-annotate, including the problems I
> have with it (which I plan to fix): it uses 18 colors -- I for one
> cannot remember such a legend. The majority of the colors are then
> meaningless and noisy. The yellows are unreadable on a light background.

Yeah, I have real trouble remembering if blue = old or red = old or what? Less 
colours would help, and also a legend I think.

I like the variable time scale though, it'd be nice if you defaulted to the 
age of the file (you might already).

cheers

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