Context Menu Feature Request

[Matt Anderson]

I'm new to Meld and have tried to search for this and have not found
anything. If this has already been requested and I missed it, I apologize.



I have used SourceGear DiffMerge for a while now and have grown rather fond
of the context menu they have in Windows.



This lets the user open the file or folder in DiffMerge, but what I use this
for is to Remember Folder for my first folder.





Then for the second folder I use the new context menu that pops up to
compare the second folder with the remembered folder. This does get a bit
tedious with the multiple levels of contextual folders, but it does give
good flexibility. The remembered files and folders are stored in
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SourceGear\SourceGear DiffMerge\ShellExtension".
The problem they have is the remembered files and folders never get deleted
so I have a batch file that runs as a scheduled task to delete this folder
and recreates it to clear all entries.



Something like this would be really nice to have as a part of Meld. Even if
what would happen from the Windows context menu was to bring up the UI and
let the user select whether to do a diff or a 3 way merge and choose the
other options needed.



Matt

[david kerns]

The first thing that pops to my minds is: write a wrapper app that manages
remembered folders, then calls meld w/ the appropriate arguments

I’m new to Meld and have tried to search for this and have not found
anything. If this has already been requested and I missed it, I apologize.
I have used SourceGear DiffMerge for a while now and have grown rather
fond of the context menu they have in Windows.
This lets the user open the file or folder in DiffMerge, but what I use
this for is to Remember Folder for my first folder.
Then for the second folder I use the new context menu that pops up to
compare the second folder with the remembered folder. This does get a bit
tedious with the multiple levels of contextual folders, but it does give
good flexibility. The remembered files and folders are stored in
“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SourceGear\SourceGear
DiffMerge\ShellExtension”. The problem they have is the remembered files
and folders never get deleted so I have a batch file that runs as a
scheduled task to delete this folder and recreates it to clear all entries.
Something like this would be really nice to have as a part of Meld. Even
if what would happen from the Windows context menu was to bring up the UI
and let the user select whether to do a diff or a 3 way merge and choose
the other options needed.
Matt
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[Kai Willadsen]

I’m new to Meld and have tried to search for this and have not found
anything. If this has already been requested and I missed it, I apologize.
I have used SourceGear DiffMerge for a while now and have grown rather
fond of the context menu they have in Windows.
This lets the user open the file or folder in DiffMerge, but what I use
this for is to Remember Folder for my first folder.
Then for the second folder I use the new context menu that pops up to
compare the second folder with the remembered folder. This does get a bit
tedious with the multiple levels of contextual folders, but it does give
good flexibility. The remembered files and folders are stored in
“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SourceGear\SourceGear
DiffMerge\ShellExtension”. The problem they have is the remembered files
and folders never get deleted so I have a batch file that runs as a
scheduled task to delete this folder and recreates it to clear all entries.

Something like this used to exist for the Nautilus file manager... I
believe it was called nautilus-compare, but was never ported to GTK+ 3.

Something like this would be really nice to have as a part of Meld. Even
if what would happen from the Windows context menu was to bring up the UI
and let the user select whether to do a diff or a 3 way merge and choose
the other options needed.

I agree that this would be cool, but I'd probably shy away from including
it as part of Meld. Meld's command line API should be able to do almost all
of what an extension like this would offer, so there's no reason it can't
be a third-party tool. Anyway, thanks for outlining the use case for this
kind of extension.

cheers,
Kai