Anna, those are great news! This is, IMO, a much-needed improvement in GRASS interface. Quite a while ago I posted some thoughts on GUI and User Experience for GRASS, and native tabs do make a big difference.
Can this be applied to GIS manager as well? best Carlos On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Anna Kratochvílová <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to inform you that you can now switch between different > command dialog styles in GRASS 7 (r52927). There are 4 styles, 3 of > them are new and they are providing platform native look. It should > solve the problem described in ticket #306 [1] (hidden tabs). Styles > can be changed in settings dialog - Appearance tab. > > Two styles use wx.Notebook with top or left tabs. The third one which > uses wx.ListBook is not yet finished. The default style is the current > fancy green FlatNotebook. > > It would be nice to add some icons to the tabs. So far I added only > icons to manual and options page to get idea how it could look like. > Unfortunately it is quite difficult to create icons which would > describe the tabs (required, optional, selection, ...). But except for > ListBook icons are not necessary. (Now icons are not used in fancy > green notebook because used style is not ready for icons.) > > The advantage of the two basic styles is that they inherit system > colors (since they are native). So it is better for users with unusual > themes which are not much supported by wxPython. > > Styles were tested on Ubuntu 10.04 (Gnome), information how styles > look like on Windows and Mac (including comparison to other > applications) is appreciated. > > Please, share your ideas about style names, icons and styles itself. > If you know how, you can also try wxPython demo and do your own > experiments with various notebooks. > > Note that this feature is experimental and even though it is change of > style some bugs which seem to be unrelated can appear. > > Anna and Vaclav > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > > -- Prof. Carlos Henrique Grohmann Institute of Geosciences - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil - Digital Terrain Analysis | GIS | Remote Sensing - http://carlosgrohmann.com ________________ Can’t stop the signal.
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