[New Plastic SCM web experience open beta now live on the Unity Dashboard!]

Hey @mariechristineb!

It's great to see Code Reviews getting some improvements!

However, I'm a bit confused about this Unity Dashboard thing. What's the connection between the tools available on plasticscm.com versus this dashboard? Do we really need two websites and two accounts to use all features of Plastic?

Also, "How to Access" says that for new users it's automatically available - but there's no note as to how to use and link it properly for existing customers as far as I can see.

Maybe I'm being dumb and missing something obvious here, in that case sorry 😄

[Trimming to reduce size of the database]

16 hours ago, Patrice Beauvais said:

I agree on what David said.

On our side, we need something more like "Keep the last X revisions" and erase the old one. The feature is still interesting if we need to keep the old one. But, our use case is on large raw data that we don't really need a long history.

Just to add another voice, archiving does not solve the issue this topic is about. We'd like files/paths, matching a regular expression (i.e. *.pdb, *.dll, etc), older than N revisions to be purged from the repository, by the server, automatically. Not backed up, not moved to an external archive storage or anything like that - we don't need them ever again (as they are usually automatically generated and we only need the newest version of them so that people can work within the repository without building anything themselves).

If these wouldn't affect the repository size (only the current data), we wouldn't mind that they are there (well, I speak for myself, I just assume that it's true for others in the same situation), but since these large binaries multiply server costs, while having no value whatsoever, it is a problem.

[Initial Feedback]

Hey @GwynRoberts, thank you for the update, it's much better!

I can't repro URL issue anymore either, so something has fixed it 🎉

I was navigating around in the new version a bit more, and found some low-priority ones, but thought that it's worth to share:

• On the compare window, the URL icon on the right side is barely visible:

• This is something very priority 500 million, but on the white theme the contrast of the Theme arrow is too low imo (but maybe it's just my color vision; dark skin version looks good!):
• I think the default-bold text is affected throughout the application. Just to give another example (sounds like I'm nit-picking but I honestly think it's not comfortable to read):

• And again, something not super important, I just came across it; some icons are really not "crisp". For some reason it's not that visible on the white theme, but on the dark one it kinda is: Just to explain what I mean, this one feels much better (I don't mean the shape; just the aliasing of the curve):

None of these things is a tragedy, just wanted to let you know

Cheers,
Kristóf

[Initial Feedback]

Hey Plastic team,

I have used the new GUI for a session, and I thought I'd share my thoughts:

- Having only a left side-bar instead of tabs is way better, +1

- With the dark theme I have encountered a lot of contrast issues:

(text overdraw, making the background fade like 90% black could solve it)

(View button, gray on the green)

(both links and change highlights)

(dark button on dark background)

(same as before, really tiring to read)

(I... couldn't say what that image is if I didn't stick my face into the screen)

- There were some smaller bugs I won't list here because I'm sure others will do, but there was one breaking bug; this popup popped up, you press OK, and before you could do anything, it pops up again (and again and again, forever; I had to Alt+F4 2 times and restart the app):

- Headers would be much cooler if they also had dark theme:

- I probably can't explain this properly, but I feel your font causes eye strain (especially bold text), they are kinda hard to read. For example, look at "New" here (changelog excerpt):

- And since it's an all new UI and whatnot... I really wished that auto-update was not a 1990-style one anymore (restarting explorer.exe, slow, uninstall-reinstall), but more like GitHub (or, well, any modern SCM client:

- Options of Changes uses totally different tab styles than the App Preferences (former looking great, the second one... not so much):

In general, it's great that you're unifying your client applications, working on a modern dark theme, and asking for feedback before actually releasing it - awesome! However, it still does feel a bit "off" compared to modern apps like GitKraken or GitHub; which are probably partly caused by the aforementioned issues; I hope the full version will introduce a great, consistent UX with proper colors for all windows / tabs

[JetBrains Space integration]

Hey there!

JetBrains' Space has just reached it's first public release and it looks very promising - maybe it's too early, but are there any plans to build an official issue tracker integration for it?
Or, if there isn't one yet... can there be one?

Cheers!