[Qgis-developer] Polishing QGIS

[Ramon Andiñach]

On 26/09/2011, at 16:56 , Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Ramon Andiñach <custard at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>> I also would be concerned about a purely 1 window approach.
>> Taking an example from my routine work, it is extremely useful to be able to
>> retain the georeferencer window open as it allows me to visually confirm my
>> control points are where I'm expecting them to be.
>> -ramon.
> 
> Just to clarify, I was *not* suggesting a purely one window approach,
> I was suggesting that should only be one *Main Window*.  That is only
> one menu should exist in the application. Try this as an experiement:
> open the georeferencer, enable dock mode in its settings and then dock
> it into the main window. Now you get a dock with menus and the main
> window with more windows. This is just plain wierd UI wise. My
> suggestion was rather than we adopt an activity based view where the
> main window menus update according to the context of what you are
> doing. Just try opening openoffice and switching between normal view
> and print preview to see what I had in mind - the toolbars adjust
> themselves and menu items grey out based on your context. I would
> expect that we will adopt a tabbed interface to QGIS (with possiblity
> to tear of tabs as floating windows) and that based on the kind of tab
> you have open, we would adjust the menus and toolbars and other
> contextual information accordingly.

Now that sounds interesting :)