<span class="Apple-style-span" style>Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Tonight I did some tweaking to the composer window. A few things had been bugging me a for a while now and I decided I would have a go at fixing some of them, or at least try to anyway.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The general changes are:</div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Redesign the composition (general) tab to remove the need to vertical scroll, in most cases. (Not a perfect redesign but it works IMO much better then the old layout)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Remove wasted space around paper area and widget (see picture[1] vs your install to see the difference)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Convert the split widget + tab widget to QDockWidgets. 1) The splitter didn't remember its last position or state 2) Could only view one tab at a time 3) The main QGIS window uses dock widgets to allow flexibility in screen layout, composer should too. 4) Can't hide tabs if you don't need to see them all the time e.g. command history . Using dock widgets solves all of these issues. </li>
</ul></div><div>The current working branch can be found at <a href="https://github.com/NathanW2/Quantum-GIS/tree/composer-redesign" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://github.com/NathanW2/Quantum-GIS/tree/composer-redesign</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I have also attached [1] an annotated screen shot if you don't want to compile the branch.</div><div><br></div><div>If I could get some general feeback and testing that would be good, keep in mind it's not a final copy and I will tweak things as I go.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm currently adding it so the dock windows remember the state, just like the main QGIS dock widgets, but that isn't in the branch yet.</div><div><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style>[1] <a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/525/composer1026.png/">http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/525/composer1026.png/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style><div>
<br></div><div><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nathan</div></span>