[Qgis-developer] User profiles

[Marco Bernasocchi]

On 10/24/2012 09:53 AM, Alister Hood wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:43:50 +0200
>> From: Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>
>> To: Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
>> Cc: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles
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>> Hi Paolo
>>  
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>> The discussion of this evening brought a nice idea: since we have many
>>> different types of users, whi not having a "first usage wizard" that
>>> simply asks the user which profile (s)he prefers, and then starts QGIS
>>> with only the needed menus and buttons activated? The profiles can be
>>> easily produced via the customization menu, so this seems trivial to
>>> implement, and can greatly help first-time users and special interest
>>> groups.
>>> Of course we have to have a prominent menu to re-run the wizard, and
>>> change the choice.
>>> Opinions?
>>  
>> I am just afraid that with such profiles the users may forget after a
>> while they have chosen a "first-time user" profile that disables a lot
>> of functionality and then users will ask/complain about missing
>> features...?
> 
> Yes, I can see why you might want to offer some default "profiles" to control which toolbars and panels are visible, but I don't think it is a good idea to use the customisation feature to hide any functionality.
> 
can you elaborate on why?
>> btw. Personally I'm quite intimidated by the amount of toolbars and
>> icons that QGIS shows by default (i.e. first run). I think if we could
>> cut that down to a one line of icons, that will be a good start.
> 
> Me too.  I'm more of an enthusiast than a frequent user, but I imagine the features most users would need to use frequently are on the "navigation", "digitizing" and "attributes" toolbars, so you would probably get away with showing only these by default.
> 
> I'm not too sure about the panels - maybe just "layers"?  Or "layers" and "overview"?
> 
> I think there might be a ticket with a discussion of this, too... or maybe there was just a previous discussion on the mailing list.
> 
> 
> Alister
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