[Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

[Nathan Woodrow]

We tried the merge into one button idea once and lets just say it
didn't go down too well with the users :)

- Nathan

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Etienne Tourigny
<etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thinks it's a great idea also.
>
> Here is a simple modification (screenshot attached) which could keep
> the buttons in the toolbar but merge them into one pop-up button. This
> saves a lot of space and keeps existing functionality.  The icon is
> not great, just a first stab.
>
> Nathan's browser button could be placed next to that.
>
> Etienne
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Vincent Picavet
> <vincent.ml at oslandia.com> wrote:
>> Hi Nathan,
>> You're my hero !
>> I dream of a unified single «Add data» button / menu entry at night ! Users
>> don't care about «add shapefile» «add raster» «add anotherformatentry». They
>> just want to add data to the map. Let's rationalize all that.
>>
>> Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 12:47:11, Nathan Woodrow a écrit :
>>> I agree that the current solution is not ideal.  I did some mockups of
>>> an idea I had during the last hackfest.  Which can be found here[0]
>>> and here[1].  It would unify all the open logic into a single dialog
>>> and save space on the tool bar.
>>
>>
>> The design you propose seems really nice. Reusing the browser is a really good
>> idea.
>> Let's do it !
>> Vincent
>>
>>>
>>> [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6170988/open%20dialog%20with%20csv.png
>>> [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6170988/filter.png
>>>
>>> - Nathan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Giovanni Manghi
>>>
>>> <giovanni.manghi at faunalia.pt> wrote:
>>> > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 07:31 -0700, haubourg wrote:
>>> >> Hi all, i would like to have your feedbacks on that point, before
>>> >> asking new features.
>>> >
>>> > I agree, an explicit "add table" button should be added.
>>> >
>>> > cheers
>>> >
>>> > -- Giovanni --
>>> >
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