[p4] P4V vs P4Win

[Ivey, William]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com]On Behalf Of Geir A.
> Myrestrand
> 
> Armstrong, Geoff (Computronix) wrote:
> > P4Win has a number of features I use all the time (that I 
> don't see in
> > P4V).
> > 
> > In P4Win I often right-click on a folder in the depot and select
> > "Explorer" or "Command Prompt" from the context menu.  Does P4V have
> > equivalent functionality?
> 
> No, it doesn't look like it, but those are Windows specific, 
> which P4Win is but P4V is not.

That's probably p4v's biggest failing for people who spend most of
their time on Windows. It's also the biggest failing of most one-
size-fits-all GUIs and tools.

There's no good reason a cross-platform GUI has to be ignorant of
platform specific features and add them when the platform permits.
Sure, it may make the interface a little less consistent from
platform to platform, but that's a minor sacrifice to gain the
functionality that users expect on a given platform. ("Consistancy
is the hobgoblin ..." and all that.)

-Wm