[Qgis-developer] Grass toolbox cleanup round 2

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Alex

2008/7/15 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>:
> Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks (esp grass users)
>>
>> I'm doing a second round of cleanups to the grass toolbox usability
>> issues and to do away with some of the bugs in trac. I'd like to
>> propose to do :
>>
>>  - make the modules list a dockwidget (see
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/timlinux/2668750983/ and
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/timlinux/2668750977/in/photostream/)
>>  - do away with the tree view altogether
>>  - give the grass console its own icon on the grass toolbar and remove
>> from the module list
>>  - make grass tools pop up in their own window
>>  - make the grass browser its own window with its own toolbar icon.
>>  - make the grass tool window scrollable when it has long lists of options
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>> regards
>>
>>
>>
> Make the grass console respect copy and paste.
>
> On the bottom of each tool when open, put a box that shows the grass code
> that's going to be executed based on selections made on the page. Allow
> typing in this box to add command modifiers not available via the dialogs.
>
> With the new search tool can you search the descriptions, what about the
> text the full help files in case you have no idea what you're looking for?
>
> Can you also make the grass browser it's own dockwidget or window, it's a
> necessary tool that makes managing grass layers much easier and is a much
> faster way to view layer metadata before adding it to the map which can
> prevent you from adding the wrong gigantic layer to the map and then waiting
> 5 min to figure out it was the wrong one. (Brings up the idea of some tool
> that is similar to ArcCatalog for managing spatial data.)
>
> I'll go read over the trac tickets before I speculate more.

All good suggestions - I'll see what is possible in the time I have. I
would suggest to file individual trac enhancement requests for these
so they are logged properly.

Regards

Tim


>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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