The current behavior was intentional because otherwise it would become much easier for users to open all their hundred repositories and then might wonder why SmartGit gets so slow and memory hungry.

You already can show the user name letters in the user name column - see config options in the hamburger menu. Do you mean you want to see tiny avatars (e.g. 7x7 pixels) in the Graph view instead of the commit dots? What would be the benefit?

What exactly is the reason for having it open in the File Compare? What feature from the File Compare you need which the Changes view doesn't offer?

I don't know SmartGit's internals, but it seems to do a lot of its

intensive file access by directly calling the git tool.

Please describe more detailed what exactly should be provided in SmartGit. Making remote repositories directly accessible without a local clone would be something which we'd consider low priority. But maybe external tools could already help to execute some ssh command that performs some remote command on the server.

Please contact smartgit@syntevo.com with a screenshot of the window.

Which SmartGit version you are using? In 19.1 there was a special Index node in the Graph view for staged changes. In 20.1 you can see staged changes in a separate table if the toolbar button directly right to the filter input field is clicked (in the Files view).

Sorry, it wasn't my intent to sound rude. Please distinguish between the user interface language and a spell checker. The spell checker exists since a long time while the Chinese UI language was only introduced recently (before, the UI language of SmartGit always was English). We always just shipped an US-English spell checker. You may use spell check files from Firefox/Thunderbird or LibreOffice. Please take a look at https://www.syntevo.com/blog/?p=4883.

This can be done if you are showing the full file contents in the Changes view, not just the compact diff.

There is such a view. In the Log, for example, simply click the Index node.