On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote:
> I'll take a proper look at the first opportunity. Unfortunately I'm a bit up > to the eyeballs at the moment (basically the free time I have for the next > two weeks is generally not in front of a machine that can run the current > Flash Debug Player), but things get easier come June. Yeah, I'm not surprised - submitting this in early April was always a risky strategy! > a) I think the newbie-friendly interface would be best served by adding an > extra icon to the toolbox, which is where all the geometry operations live. > The "make junctions" tool could also get an icon. But before we do that we > really need to add a disclosure triangle below the top row, so that as > standard the toolbox shows the important operations (delete, reverse, cut, > join), and the less mainstream ones can be revealed on demand. Would address > problems with newbies thinking the "straighten way" icon puts you in some > mythical draw mode! Agreed - that would be even better. (As always, I have to ask - "but isn't the patch already an improvement on the status quo, even if it's not yet perfect?") Also, would you accept an extra toolbox icon, without the "disclosure triangle" feature? Thinking how it would work, it would probably actually not do anything: 1) Select intersection node 2) Click "magic roundabout" toolbox button 3) Message displayed, "Hover the mouse over a roundabout entrance, then press A" 4) Pressing A actually does the magic roundabout. (Which it already does - so steps 2 and 3 are just usability.) > b) Ideally I'd like to replace the "start drawing a way from the centre > node" UI with a circle that follows the mouse, exactly like parallelise > does. I'm happy to work on this when I have the time, but if you beat me to > it I won't complain. Also agreed - I think I even started investigating how to do that. I may get some time this week to have a go. As above, it would be nice for acceptance of the original patch not to be contingent on implementation of enhanced usability for it. Steve _______________________________________________ Potlatch-dev mailing list Potlatch-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
