[Qgis-developer] Clarifying access to non geographical datas

[Etienne Tourigny]

How long ago was that?

Now there are 10 buttons in the Layers Toolbar (8 of which are for
adding new layers) - which I think is a lot of clutter. I personally
shrink that toolbar to just a few icons.

Etienne

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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