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Hi Nathan<br>
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The changes to the composer UI look great.<br>
+1 for integrating into master branch.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Marco<br>
<br>
On 02.02.2012 14:06, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
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cite="mid:CAAi8Yg9tf-yifBYJ6VC28ASoSZ+VFxNL_PvWCRTs=Jm34VqhWQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Hi all,
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<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>
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<div>The general changes are:</div>
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<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>
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<div>The current working branch can be found at <a
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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>
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<div>I have also attached [1] an annotated screen shot if you
don't want to compile the branch.</div>
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<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>
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</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>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">[1] <a
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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="">
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Nathan</div>
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