On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Richard Bell <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Is there a plan to improve the layout customizability beyond the GUI
> Hints? I think the gui hints are counter-intuitive and don't provide a lot
> of control.
>
> Rich
>

I don't find them that counter-intuitive. The (row, col, rowspan, colspan)
is a fairly often used concept in grid layouts. Still, I don't disagree
that we can make this better and offer more flexibility. Do you specific
suggestions that we could discuss?

Tom



> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Martin Braun <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 24.03.2015 09:04, George Hadley wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>>          I recently began using gnuradio and GRC with a pair of USRPs.
>>> It's my understanding that plans are underway to ultimately remove WX in
>>> v3.9 as a GUI option from gnuradio, and replace it with QT. It's also my
>>> understanding that QT GUI development is underway in future versions of
>>> gnuradio. I'm interested in attempting to help develop for gnuradio and
>>> have forked a copy of the source from github.
>>>
>>
>> Whoooo! We are really very happy about new developers, *especially* on
>> the GUI side.
>>
>>
>>>          With that in mind, I have a few questions:
>>>
>>>      1. Who is involved with QT GUI development for gnuradio?
>>>
>>
>> Tom is the main guy for this, and he'll probably chip in.
>>
>>       2. What future improvements, especially functionality related, are
>>>         planned for gnuradio QT? All I have been able to find in the
>>>         3.8.0 roadmap is that grc will "introduce a QT version of GRC"
>>>         (what does that mean?) and that gr-qtgui will be switching
>>>         examples to use gr-qtgui instead of gr-wxgui. Functionality I'm
>>>         most interested in includes X/Y mode for the QT GUI Time Sink
>>>         and the ability to pause the output of the Time, Frequency, and
>>>         Waterfall sinks (as is available via the "Stop" button in the WX
>>>         counterparts.
>>>
>>
>> Before you rush ahead, X/Y mode is already available through the
>> 'constellation' sink. But that's not to say we can't change the time sink.
>> Particularly for people who are used to it.
>>
>> Pause is already in QT -- check out the menu.
>>
>>       3. In looking over the WX and QT GUI options, I personally prefer
>>>         the layout and functionality of the WX GUI components
>>>         (specifically, the instrumentation options). Are there any plans
>>>         to attempt to replicate the layout and options of the WX
>>>         components? (Perhaps the old WX layout style and functionality
>>>         are being abandoned for good reason; if that's the case, if
>>>         anybody could clarify that for me or point me in the right
>>>         direction I would be most appreciative.)
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but don't want it to be permanent. Ideal woulde be a sidebar with
>> instrumentation buttons that is collapsible, or hidable or something like
>> that.
>>
>> There's a couple of things we'd like to add to the QT widgets, let me
>> have a look if I can find that list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> M
>>
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