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

[Panagiotis Mavrogiorgos]

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
> To: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>, "Blumentrath, Stefan" <
> Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no>
> Cc: Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com>, grass-dev <
> grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 15:53:52 -0500
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] grouping most important parameters in a 'main' tab
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> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Moritz Lennert <
>> mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
wrt to the name of the tab, instead of "main", "common" might be more
accurate.
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