On 10/24/2012 09:53 AM, Alister Hood wrote: > Hi guys, > >> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:43:50 +0200 >> From: Martin Dobias <[email protected]> >> To: Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> >> Cc: qgis-developer <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles >> Message-ID: >> <CAC2XbFfjRANmX52NNoW7KHYPO5uG0H_FhV=p+n70p1ywqnh...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Hi Paolo >> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi all. >>> The discussion of this evening brought a nice idea: since we have many >>> different types of users, whi not having a "first usage wizard" that >>> simply asks the user which profile (s)he prefers, and then starts QGIS >>> with only the needed menus and buttons activated? The profiles can be >>> easily produced via the customization menu, so this seems trivial to >>> implement, and can greatly help first-time users and special interest >>> groups. >>> Of course we have to have a prominent menu to re-run the wizard, and >>> change the choice. >>> Opinions? >> >> I am just afraid that with such profiles the users may forget after a >> while they have chosen a "first-time user" profile that disables a lot >> of functionality and then users will ask/complain about missing >> features...? > > Yes, I can see why you might want to offer some default "profiles" to control > which toolbars and panels are visible, but I don't think it is a good idea to > use the customisation feature to hide any functionality. > can you elaborate on why? >> btw. Personally I'm quite intimidated by the amount of toolbars and >> icons that QGIS shows by default (i.e. first run). I think if we could >> cut that down to a one line of icons, that will be a good start. > > Me too. I'm more of an enthusiast than a frequent user, but I imagine the > features most users would need to use frequently are on the "navigation", > "digitizing" and "attributes" toolbars, so you would probably get away with > showing only these by default. > > I'm not too sure about the panels - maybe just "layers"? Or "layers" and > "overview"? > > I think there might be a ticket with a discussion of this, too... or maybe > there was just a previous discussion on the mailing list. > > > Alister > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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