I'll send plenty of angry little green men to anybody consitering
removing a vertical scroll bar :)
ciao
On 02/02/2012 04:18 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
Hi Nathan,
In general I like your redesign.
Regarding the vertical scrollbars: they aren't removed, are they? When
redesigning the print composer, please think about small netbook and
smartphone screens where the vertical scrollbars and tabs are the only
means of reaching all UI elements. Those are the reasons why they were
introduced in the first place.
One thing I don't like currently is the drawing of the basic shapes
(rects, circles, triangles). In normal drawing applications one selects
the shape first and then draws it. In Print Composer you always draw a
circle first (even if you usually want a rect) and later change the
shape to what you want. This is not very streamlined. I would prefer to
have a drop-down button that allows to select the shape first (like the
align and order buttons) and then start drawing.
I did not test your branch though.
Andreas
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:06:21 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
Hi all,
Tonight I did some tweaking to the composer window. A few things had
been bugging me a for a while now and I decided I would have a go at
fixing some of them, or at least try to anyway.
The general changes are:
* Redesign the composition (general) tab to remove the need
to vertical scroll, in most cases. (Not a perfect redesign but it
works IMO much better then the old layout)
* Remove wasted space around paper area and widget (see picture[1]
vs your install to see the difference)
* Convert the split widget + tab widget to QDockWidgets. 1) The
splitter didn't remember its last position or state 2) Could only view
one tab at a time 3) The main QGIS window uses dock widgets to allow
flexibility in screen layout, composer should too. 4) Can't hide tabs
if you don't need to see them all the time e.g. command history .
Using dock widgets solves all of these issues.
The current working branch can be found
at https://github.com/NathanW2/Quantum-GIS/tree/composer-redesign [1]
I have also attached [1] an annotated screen shot if you don't want
to compile the branch.
If I could get some general feeback and testing that would be good,
keep in mind it's not a final copy and I will tweak things as I go.
I'm currently adding it so the dock windows remember the state, just
like the main QGIS dock widgets, but that isn't in the branch yet.
[1] http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/525/composer1026.png/ [2]
Thanks,
Nathan
Links:
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[1] https://github.com/NathanW2/Quantum-GIS/tree/composer-redesign
[2] http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/525/composer1026.png/
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www.opengis.ch
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