[Qgis-developer] Polishing QGIS

[Nathan Woodrow]

FYI a good site for doing UI mockup is
http://builds.balsamiq.com/b/mockups-web-demo/

- Nathan

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Ramon Andiñach <custard at westnet.com.au>wrote:

>
> 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
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