FYI a good site for doing UI mockup is <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://builds.balsamiq.com/b/mockups-web-demo/">http://builds.balsamiq.com/b/mockups-web-demo/</a><div><br>
</div><div>- Nathan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Ramon Andiņach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:custard@westnet.com.au">custard@westnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 26/09/2011, at 16:56 , Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
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> Hi All<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Ramon Andiņach <<a href="mailto:custard@westnet.com.au">custard@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I also would be concerned about a purely 1 window approach.<br>
>> Taking an example from my routine work, it is extremely useful to be able to<br>
>> retain the georeferencer window open as it allows me to visually confirm my<br>
>> control points are where I'm expecting them to be.<br>
>> -ramon.<br>
><br>
> Just to clarify, I was *not* suggesting a purely one window approach,<br>
> I was suggesting that should only be one *Main Window*. That is only<br>
> one menu should exist in the application. Try this as an experiement:<br>
> open the georeferencer, enable dock mode in its settings and then dock<br>
> it into the main window. Now you get a dock with menus and the main<br>
> window with more windows. This is just plain wierd UI wise. My<br>
> suggestion was rather than we adopt an activity based view where the<br>
> main window menus update according to the context of what you are<br>
> doing. Just try opening openoffice and switching between normal view<br>
> and print preview to see what I had in mind - the toolbars adjust<br>
> themselves and menu items grey out based on your context. I would<br>
> expect that we will adopt a tabbed interface to QGIS (with possiblity<br>
> to tear of tabs as floating windows) and that based on the kind of tab<br>
> you have open, we would adjust the menus and toolbars and other<br>
> contextual information accordingly.<br>
<br>
</div>Now that sounds interesting :)_______________________________________________<br>
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