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TortoiseSVN Support in fman

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Description

Hello, I've just started evaluating fman and I like what I see so far except that using it with TortoiseSVN falls short. I found and installed a helpful plugin called fman-tortoisesvnhelper that provides some functionality but doesn't provide what I consider a native experience.

There are two features missing from fman that would provide that native TortoiseSVN usability: Windows context menu support and file overlay icons. In searching the issue tracker, I found two issues that spotlight these missing features:

Issue #43: Context menu support
Issue #354: Display Overlay Icons

I'm not sure if this is proper Github issue tracker etiquette but since TortoiseSVN is a fundamental part of my daily FPGA development work, I submitted this to bring attention to 'TortoiseSVN Support' as a single issue. I won't be able to adopt fman without a fully-functional TortoiseSVN experience and I suspect others may feel the same.

I understand that fman is "optimized to be used with the keyboard" and TortoiseSVN is decidedly a mouse-centric tool. It could be that closer integration with TortoiseSVN doesn't fit the author's vision for fman and that's fine but I'd like to know if that's the case.

So my question is: Is improved TortoiseSVN Support planned for fman?

Thanks for your consideration.

-Rob

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  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Review issues #43 and #354 alongside the fman-tortoisesvnhelper plugin to understand the requested context-menu and overlay-icon behavior. The scope still needs to be defined before implementation; done would mean an agreed native TortoiseSVN integration covering both requested features.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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