Ability to browse source code similar to https://app.radicle.xyz/
I find myself having to jump between desktop and browser tab because desktop does not allow me to browse code, can please such feature be added to reduce context switching required.
For what it’s worth I’d much rather interacted with web interface if I could participate in issues / patches.
Can you elaborate a bit more on your workflow? Like what tasks are you trying to achieve? We haven’t added source browsing to desktop yet, because we thought that source browsing would be better suited for your local IDE. So we were thinking of adding a way of opening the code in your IDE via a button rather than offering in the app.
When I discover new intresting project I often browse through source code on github, I rarely clone it locally unless I’m planning to write some patches. With radicle in particular I found myself looking at these repos not too long ago
https://app.radicle.at/nodes/seed.radicle.gr/rad:z2UyZq9x68YFvZ4xrKf1JbQD3pmRU
I don’t really wanted to clone the repo just wanted to follow instructions and when they were failing I wanted to submit an issue, but since I can’t do it from web interface I have to do in in desktop app, but I can’t see repo in the desktop app so I end up jumping back and forth.
Other times I find myself browsing repos is when I want to get a link to a specific code section and send it to someone. I might have that code in my editor, yet that does not help me with the objective. This is another case where I rembeber going to web interface. Also sometimes I find myself in the issues in the web interface wondering why I can’t comment before I remember I have to go to an desktop app to do that.
Great. Thank you, that’s very helpful to us.
Just merged an initial implementation of source browsing. This will be available in the next release.