Clearer top level navigation and status
@aday
Submitted by Allan Day Link to original bug (#755973)
Description
Currently, there are two fairly significant issues with gitg's design.
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Switching between the history and changes views isn't clear. The toggle for this uses icons whose meaning is ambiguous, and isn't a prominent UI element.
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You can't always see the status of the current repo: you can't see which branch you are on from the changes view, and you can't see if there are unstaged changes when you are viewing history.
I've attempted to resolve these issues in a set of mockups:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/gitg/gitg-wires.png
While these do propose a lot of changes, I think the ones that address the issues I've described above seem like the most important.
Version: git master