[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] command dialog notebook styles

[Anna Kratochvílová]

Hi Carlos,

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Carlos Grohmann
<carlos.grohmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anna, those are great news!

I'm glad you like it.

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> This is, IMO, a much-needed improvement in GRASS interface. Quite a while
> ago I posted some thoughts on GUI and User Experience for GRASS, and native
> tabs do make a big difference.

Where can I find it?

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> Can this be applied to GIS manager as well?

Yes, but we must first understand how it should look like because
there are two level of tabs (top and bottom) so they probably should
look differently. Any suggestions are welcome.

Anna

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> best
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> Carlos
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> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Anna Kratochvílová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I would like to inform you that you can now switch between different
>> command dialog styles in GRASS 7 (r52927). There are 4 styles, 3 of
>> them are new and they are providing platform native look. It should
>> solve the problem described in ticket #306 [1] (hidden tabs). Styles
>> can be changed in settings dialog - Appearance tab.
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>> Two styles use wx.Notebook with top or left tabs. The third one which
>> uses wx.ListBook is not yet finished. The default style is the current
>> fancy green FlatNotebook.
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>> It would be nice to add some icons to the tabs. So far I added only
>> icons to manual and options page to get idea how it could look like.
>> Unfortunately it is quite difficult to create icons which would
>> describe the tabs (required, optional, selection, ...). But except for
>> ListBook icons are not necessary. (Now icons are not used in fancy
>> green notebook because used style is not ready for icons.)
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>> The advantage of the two basic styles is that they inherit system
>> colors (since they are native). So it is better for users with unusual
>> themes which are not much supported by wxPython.
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>> Styles were tested on Ubuntu 10.04 (Gnome), information how styles
>> look like on Windows and Mac (including comparison to other
>> applications) is appreciated.
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>> Please, share your ideas about style names, icons and styles itself.
>> If you know how, you can also try wxPython demo and do your own
>> experiments with various notebooks.
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>> Note that this feature is experimental and even though it is change of
>> style some bugs which seem to be unrelated can appear.
>>
>> Anna and Vaclav
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