[Qgis-developer] Better options dialogs

[Etienne Tourigny]

Hi Larry.

I think it's a great improvement. In addition, I wonder if it would
make sense to have the text below the icons (perhaps as an option), in
order to save some horizontal space.

Have you tried that?

Etienne

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com> wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> as already was mentioned in this thread similar design of options dialog
>> was used several versions ago but then we switched to tabs. List widget
>> only with icons IMHO not user friendly, especially for newcomers.
>>
>> If icons will be with captions we again come to initial problem for translators:
>> translating some text when listbox is used is a real pain in some languages.
>> I think Jean-Roc Morreale can explain all problems for translators better.
>
> Thanks for the input. Might you be referring to
> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/2202 ?
>
> My proposed layout does not have that issue. The one for 1.6 used
> large icons with text that was center-justified and wrapped
> underneath, but had no means of increasing the overall width of the
> widget by the user. It appears the larger icons were to aid in that
> problem, but weren't enough for longer translations.
>
> In my layout, the use of a splitter, whose state can easily be saved
> to QSettings, allows for the width of the list widget to customized
> (and stay that way) for users of different locales. I have 3 more
> mockups to illustrate this [0]:
>
> app-options_nowrap.png - Shows how the splitter can be moved to view
> the whole option set label (note French substitution for Map Tools).
> Expanding the left column like this, while possible, uses more
> horizontal space than necessary. Horizontal scroll bar is still
> available.
>
> app-options_wrap.png - Shows the QListWidget's word wrap helping save
> some horizontal space. This is with 32x32 icons, which I would
> consider the largest for desktop (as with QGIS tool bars). Even larger
> icons could be user-/config-set for touch screens.
>
> Given the improved layout over v. 1.6's, I foresee no issues for translators.
>
>> ... List widget
>> only with icons IMHO not user friendly, especially for newcomers.
>
> app-options_tooltip.png - Shows the collapsed splitter, with only
> icons and tool tips. This is an optional user-adjusted (or possibly
> button-enacted) view where the list widget's minimum width is set to
> the width of the chosen icon size + some padding (with scroll bar
> taken into account, if shown). This is not a default, which would not
> be so nice for new users, as you noted. However, also note that with
> this icon-only, space-saving view a user is not being presented with
> anything less user-friendly than the many tool bar icons in the main
> interface, which do not have any labels at all, only tool tips.
>
> [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/options-dlgs/app-options_nowrap.png
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/options-dlgs/app-options_wrap.png
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/options-dlgs/app-options_tooltip.png
>
> Larry
>
>> 2012/9/5 Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>:
>>> Possible solution: Move 'tabs' to simple list widget on left side of a
>>> splitter and have option sections loaded on right.
>>>
>>> I have done mockups for the app and vector layer options [0], which
>>> show the following advantages:
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Bruy
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