On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 4:27 PM, James Turner wrote: > In terms of usability, I never know what's in view vs display options > until I open them - some restructuring here would be awesome. > Especially since the 'view options' sounds useful, but in practice I've > no idea what use-case it fulfils.
The use-case is to enable or disable particular views if you don't want to have to spend ages cycling through them. Personally, I've had the Helicopter, Chase, Tower, Tower Look From and Model Views disabled for some time, as they are all very similar. I find that Chase Without Yaw View the most useful exterior view for assessing landings. (In fact, I wonder whether we should disable some of them by default in preferences.xml so that new users aren't overwhelmed. OTOH I've not heard of anyone complaining of confusion on the forum, so I'm probably trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.) I think we have the right split of function between the Display Options and View Options dialogs at present, but the View Options name is too generic. How about "Enable/Disable Views"? Alternatively, we could just merge the Display Options and View Options dialogs into one (probably named View Options). Neither of them are very large. A more radical idea would be to change the noun from "Views" to "Cameras", which IMO are a bit more descriptive. We'd then have a "Cockpit Camera" rather than a "Cockpit View" etc. On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Alexis Bory wrote: > I don't mind at all. I'm already delighted to see courageous people > dealing with the gui which is kind of a nightmare for me. Well I mean > dealing with gui dilemmas is a nightmare, not FG gui ;-) Yup - it's a minefield :) -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
