Hi, Got a phone call from an (to me at unknown) QGIS user who asked: "I opened a shapefile but I cannot edit it.. the little pencil stays disabled... I googled for half an hour but cannot get it working".
After some Q&A, it appeared that he had opened the shapefile from a ZIP... So I was wondering: should we be more forgiving to new users, and for example write messages to the messagebox when people click disabled buttons? (I googled that a disabled button apparently still fires signals) I know that for the average QGIS dev/user this is not so strange, but QGIS is full with "silly things for un-experienced" users. Ask everybody who runs 'QGIS for beginners"-courses! As (Q)GIS is becoming more and more used by non GIS-experts, it would be nice if we give usability a more prominent role. I also understand that talk is cheap, and making complex things easy is VERY VERY hard, but still... We do have a lot of clever people around, which can do this! Ubuntu Linux some years ago had a project 'papercut': fix as many 'little' usability issues as was possible. And ask 'users' to come up with those. I'm not goint to self-injure us here by asking people to tell us here :-) But what about a 'usability' tag in the issue tracker? And assign some of the 'bug fix' money to those? (and encourage people to create 'usability' issues... /me hiding now) Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
