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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Antonio Locandro < [email protected]> wrote: > I am having a second look at the menus and can I ask why would you want to > crowd the menus with the same actions you already have icons for in > toolbars? > > e.g. > > Edit menu has all the same tools as the Advanced Editing Toolbar (I highly > doubt users doing serious editing would use menus instead of icons) > Layer menu has all this add layer types the same as Manage Layer Toolbar > (would look better with just an icon that opens a file dialog to whatever > data you need, an universal add data button type) > > IMHO it seems a waste of space and makes things crowded > > This is frowned apon by HIG folks - all tool buttons etc should be accessible by menus as far as possible - a user may have disabled a toolbar, may have accessibility software that uses the menu system to activate functionality etc. In short adding a toolbar button should never be an excuse for removing a menu item. Regards Tim > ** > ** > *Ing. Antonio Locandro* > Tegucigalpa, Honduras > +504 9503 5747 > Need a GPS map for Central America, Asia or South America / Necesitas un > mapa GPS para Centro America, Asia o Sur > America<http://store.gpstravelmaps.com/?Click=63> > <http://store.gpstravelmaps.com/?Click=63> > > > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:07:58 +1000 > To: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] 'File' versus 'Project' > > Ramon, > > I would agree with those points. In fact I think the menu structure as is > doesn't make much sense and the Edit menu should be renamed to Feature/s. > > What does Edit mean: > > - Edit Layer > - Edit Feature > - Edit Project > > If you look at all the tools in the Edit menu they are all related to the > current feature or features. The undo and redo actions should be moved to > the layer menu. > > Here are my thoughts on the Layer menu: > > http://i.imgur.com/oYO55Qz.png > > Moving the Add xxx Layer to the project menu would mean you follow these > actions when creating a new project: > > Project -> New > Project -> Add xxx Layer > > Change the style > > Layer -> Properties > > That is a more logical flow IMO then currently what is there. > > Thoughts? > > - Nathan > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Ramon Andiñach <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 24/04/2013, at 05:55 , Ramon Andiñach wrote: > > > > > On 24/04/2013, at 04:28 , John C. Tull wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I was having some discussion on IRC today with Tim and Larry about the > recent change to the menu in trunk. Before, the menu used "File" and that > was changed to "Project". My position is that it does not seem Mac-like, > whether or not a QGIS document resides in the filesystem as a .qgs file or > if your "Project" is fed from a database, something apparently planned for > the future of QGIS. > >> > >> I'd be interested in feedback from other Mac users on this. I'm > flexible to the change, but wanted to vet this and see if anyone else had a > strong opinion one way or the other. Please make it clear if you are a Mac > OS X user or not. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> John > > > > Interesting. I'd say this is going to look as odd at home on my mac as > at work on their windows box. No file menu - that's going to look very > unfamiliar. > > > > That said, it's a good name. It does describe what's in there - those > commands work on the project-file not a layer-file. > > > > -ramon. > > Ok. I've been standing at the bottom of a large-ish hole today, so if this > sounds like a dumb idea that's my excuse. > > Could we move Layer across next to Project? > > > Some reasoning. > 1. If we're abandoning File in favour of Project, then there's possibly no > reason to retain Edit next to it either. Other than historical ones. > 2. Project and Layer are largely about opening, closing, saving (and other > similar things) files. Project files in one menu and Layers (vectors, > rasters, DB, etc) in the other. > 3. Then you have a more logical progression from left to right about how > to use QGIS. (Open stuff, change stuff) > > -ramon. > (OK, 1. is not so good, but it does open the door to ask questions!) > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing > list [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. 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