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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>In addition to your
mentioned ideas all layers in editing mode should be signed as toggled to
editing in the legend list.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Regards</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Horst</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>------------------------------------------------</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Dr. Horst
Düster</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>GIS-Koordinator, Stv.
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>-----Ursprüngliche
Nachricht-----</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Von: Marco Hugentobler
[mailto:marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch]</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Gesendet
am: Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 08:57</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>An:
Tim Sutton</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Cc:
qgis-developer</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Betreff: Re:
[Qgis-developer] Digitising icons</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Hi Tim,</span></div>
<br>
<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Thanks for your help. I also
think that the digitising tools would benefit
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>from some polishing.</span></div>
<br>
<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> - I would like to
revise the digitising icons - they are not
all</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> consistent and in retrospect
that blue background I put behind
icons</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> reduces contrast and makes
it hard to visually separate one from
the</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> other. I've made a quick
mockup in the GIMP (attached). If folks
are</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> happy with those as concept
Ill do them more neatly (in
particularly</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> anti-aliased) as
svgs and then export to pngs. Any objections?</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>+1. The new icons look good
and I think they are clearer. E.g. the difference
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>move features / move Vertex is
clearer visible and also the meaning of 'add
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>ring' and 'add island' operation is
easier to get.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> - The slow point for me
in digitising now is atrribute data
capture.</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> In particular working
with keyboard or mouse involves extra clicks
to</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> move between fiellds - when
you capture a lot of data these all add
up</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> to a chunk of time lost. I
propose as a short term fix to make
the</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> field names row headings
rather than cell values to eliminate
needing</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> to tab through field
headings when jumping from cell to cell. In
the</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> longer term I would like to
change the ui to dynamically generate
a</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> form with suitable widgets
based on the data type being entered.
Ill</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> come back to that in a future
release though.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>I don't understand what you
mean with the short time fix. Do you mean to
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>enable the possibility to jump from
the end of a column to the beginning of
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>the next with tab key?</span></div>
<br>
<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> - the vertex marker
cross hairs are in my opinion too long and
take</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> on the pen style of the
layer which can look a bit strange at
times.</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> As a short term fix I
would like to suggest shortening the length
of</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> the marker arms and use a
standard red, 2px pen for rendering them.
In</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> the longer term it might be
nice to use little circles.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Yes, a circle or maybe a
square with transparent fill would be nice. I'm going
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>to take a look at udig and jump to
see what they use.</span></div>
<br>
<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> - we should aim to use
a single icon for capturing point line
or</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> polygon with its image being
changed in accordance to the context
of</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> the layer type being
edited.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Also in my opinion, the
digitising toolbar takes too much space. I'd like to
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>use a dropdown list for the tools. So
there would be only a button for
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>start/stop editing and a dropdown
list for the tools.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Regards,</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Marco</span></div>
<br>
<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>--
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Dr. Marco
Hugentobler</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Institute of
Cartography</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>ETH
Zurich</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Technical Advisor QGIS Project
Steering
Committee</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>_______________________________________________</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Qgis-developer
mailing
list</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Qgis-developer@lists.qgis.org</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</span></div>
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