[GRASS-dev] Layer Manager notebook

[Moritz Lennert]

On 26/01/16 03:02, Anna Petrášová wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I plan to change the style of the Layer Manager tabs in the bottom of
> the window from wx.FlatNotebook to wx.Notebook. The results look like this:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1j-R6U3_Ct9RFd1V3JSbDRjdGc/view?usp=sharing
>
> Reasons include:
> * FlatNotebook behaves strangely on Ubuntu 15+ with wxpython3 wxGTK,
> switching tabs doesn't work well
> * FlatNotebook rendering glitch on MacOSX with wxpython 3 (visible in
> the screenshot)
> * FlatNotebook causes crashing when switching from 3D to 2D on MacOSX
> with wxpython 3 http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16357
> * FlatNotebook probably causes loosing focus when switching to command
> console
> * FlatNotebook probably causes some GDK critical warnings on Ubuntu
>
> Overall, by using native widget (wx.Notebook) we avoid many glitches.

+1

> However, the appearance will be different for different OS. I personally
> don't have problem with that, but I would suggest applying this to Mac
> and Linux, not Windows, because on Windows it looks ugly and since we
> still use wxpython 2.8, the described glitches don't apply there. Opinions?

I think that ideally, whenever possible, we should avoid having 
different treatments for different OS's. But if you all think that the 
windows version looks too ugly (I'm quite insensitive to such issues, so 
not a good judge), then +1 as long as windows is still wxpython 2.8.

>
>
> Related to this, any opinion on making the labels of the tabs shorter?

For me they can be as short as you want, as I know what they are about, 
but we have to try to think like a GRASS newbie, here. So, my 
reflections in detail:

>
> Map layers -> Layers

+1

> Command console -> Console
> Search modules -> Search

For these two I'm not sure if the short version is clear enough on what 
these are about: will most users understand what a 'Console' is ? At 
what is it you can search there ?

> Data catalogue -> Catalogue

+1

> Python shell -> Python

Again, not sure if just 'Python' is enough to make it clear.

IIUC, the reason for shortening is essentially OSX, or ? Wouldn't it be 
possible to just slightly reduce font size ?

Moritz