[GRASS-dev] grouping most important parameters in a 'main' tab

Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreugel at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 04:15:02 PST 2015


On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Moritz Lennert <
mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> In a response to #2632 [1], I changed v.db.select in trunk (r67337) in
> order to reorder parameters in the module GUI and group what I consider the
> most important parameters in a 'Main' tab.
>
> I know there has been much discussion about parameter grouping in the GUI
> before and I don't want to impose my choices here. So, I'm more than happy
> to revert if necessary.
>
> The main idea is to ease the use of module GUIs without giving up their
> complete power. In other words, simplify, without dumming down. If, for a
> module, there are some parameters that seem the most obvious ones to
> change, then why not regroup them in a 'Main' tab, while leaving the other,
> more specialised ones, in separate tabs ?
>

I am all in favour of this. Easier for the casual user and it means less
clicks for probably most user-cases. I guess it will not always be easy to
determine what are the most important / common parameters, but for this
module I think you got them all right under the main tab.


>
> Please have a look and tell me what you think.
>
> Moritz
>
> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2632
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