[Qgis-developer] Better options dialogs

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Larry
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com> wrote:
>> Hi Matthias and Nathan,
>>
>> I was just about to bring this topic back up myself. :^) Yes, I can
>> work on this next (probably this weekend). I'll start with the main
>> app options dialog, cause it's the simplest.
>
> Great to hear that ;-)
>
> I just wanted to add that I would also appreciate (for options dialog)
> what Tim has already mentioned: the "advanced" tab with a property
> list widget (something like [1]): we have lots of settings that are
> very rarely used (and some of them are even hard to decipher for
> developers!), so moving such clutter outside of regular tabs would
> bring some fresh air to the options dialog. Of course this can be done
> completely separately from what you're going to implement, just wanted
> to point out that this would a welcome addition, too :-)
>
> [1] http://www.myvirtualdisplay.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/firefox_config.png


I have in the past written a simple widget based on QT Settings editor
example [0].
It does exactly what you mention.

I can try to dig up that code, post a screenshot and create a pull
request for others to review.

[0] http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/tools-settingseditor.html

Etienne

>
> Regards
> Martin
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