mercurial - handle remote hg repositories as well as git

It would be nice if smartgit handled remote repos as well with mercurial as it
does for git.
In particular it would be nice to be able to see what the difference is between a
local and remote tracking branch before actually puling, as is possible with the
smartgit "log for" view
(even though this is a bit hidden in smartgit, first pull, then fetch only).
TortoiseHg does this better by offering a "check for incoming/outgoing changes"
tool buttons.
Also it would be nice to be able to add/view remote hg repos from inside smartgit.
currently it seems one has to manually edit the local repos .hg/hgrc file.