[Qgis-developer] Composer redesign

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Nathan

The changes to the composer UI look great.
+1 for integrating into master branch.

Regards,
Marco

On 02.02.2012 14:06, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Tonight I did some tweaking to the composer window.  A few things had 
> been bugging me a for a while now and I decided I would have a go at 
> fixing some of them, or at least try to anyway.
>
> The general changes are:
>
>   * Redesign the composition (general) tab to remove the need
>     to vertical scroll, in most cases. (Not a perfect redesign but it
>     works IMO much better then the old layout)
>   * Remove wasted space around paper area and widget (see picture[1]
>     vs your install to see the difference)
>   * Convert the split widget + tab widget to QDockWidgets. 1) The
>     splitter didn't remember its last position or state 2) Could only
>     view one tab at a time 3) The main QGIS window uses dock widgets
>     to allow flexibility in screen layout, composer should too. 4)
>     Can't hide tabs if you don't need to see them all the time e.g.
>     command history . Using dock widgets solves all of these issues.
>
> The current working branch can be found at 
> https://github.com/NathanW2/Quantum-GIS/tree/composer-redesign
>
> I have also attached [1] an annotated screen shot if you don't want 
> to compile the branch.
>
> If I could get some general feeback and testing that would be good, 
> keep in mind it's not a final copy and I will tweak things as I go.
>
> I'm currently adding it so the dock windows remember the state, just 
> like the main QGIS dock widgets, but that isn't in the branch yet.
>
> [1] http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/525/composer1026.png/
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan
>
>
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