Hi yes the delete and remove ops should be separate. Long time ago I introduced it, because a couple of times I accidently chose delete/remove while wanting to do something else... having the separators pretty much eliminates this problem as the the items are fo far away from "other" stuff.
With cut, yes, its a bit different, as Edgar wrotes. cheers, stefan Am 18.12.14 07:15, schrieb edgar.sol...@web.de: > On 18.12.2014 09:04, Michael Michaud wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Layer context menu has been changed a few month ago, >> but I don't understand the rational >> >> we now have : >> >> - Cut Selected Layers >> - Copy Selected Layers >> - Paste Items >> - Combine Selected Layers >> ***** >> - Remove Selected Layers >> - Delete All Features >> ***** >> ***** >> Add New Features >> Select Current Layer Items >> >> Questions / proposition for the defult plugins configuration >> 1 ) Is there a difference between Cut and Remove Selected Layers >> (I'm used to the remove symbol and did not notice the cut plugin) > > there is, cut keeps them in clipboard so you can paste. remove just deletes > them. > >> 2) Could we gather layer plugins and feature plugins together >> - Remove Selected Layers >> - Copy Selected Layers >> - Combine Selected Layers >> ***** >> - Add New Features >> - Paste *Features* >> - Delete All Features >> - Select *All* Features >> > > yes, but that would be highly unusual. 'cut/copy/paste' are standard edit > routines, which are grouped together in the edit menu of every software i > know. usually they are followed by 'delete'. > > i took the liberty to separate 'delete', just to visualize that this is a > destructive edit. > > also, from a usability standpoint, menus should be as similar as possible so > users get used the order of entries and do not need to look around. for > example - > ideally the 'Edit' menu should have the same entries as the > 'LayerView'-context menu. > the 'Layer' menu the same as the 'LayerTree'-context menu. > > of that is not always possible but we are pretty close i'd say. > > ..ede > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
