[Qgis-developer] Better options dialogs

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> See my reply inline.
>
>>> Where do you get the list of properties from? Could tags and descriptive
>>> text be added to these settings?
>>
>> Actually they are read from the settings file / registry by QSettings.
>> So anything not in the user's setting does not show up.
>
> ok
>
>> Anything more complex such as you mention would require a csv or xml
>> file with description and tags for each settings key.
>> A csv file would be easier to write and maintain, but an xml file
>> would be easier to parse I guess. Unless someone can point me to
>> a handy xml editor or csv-to-xml tool.
>
> Ok - we would also need multi-language titles and tags and it should be
> easily translatable. Can we re-use some existing file for that purpose
> and extend it with the tags for the fuzzy search?

Actually looking at the existing code, it's based on QTreeWidget so
any searching functionality would require re-writing it with a
QTreeView and model, a bit more involved.

I have made some adjustments to the code at [1] (to add support for
boll, int and double types), I was wondering if I should make a pull
request or merge it as it is so other devs can have a look?

[1] https://github.com/etiennesky/Quantum-GIS/tree/settingseditor

Cheers,
Etienne

>
>> Another thing that would be nice would be the possible values that a
>> setting can take, in a dictionnary (key=value pairs) style.
>> (e.g. 0="value1";1="value2")
>
> yes - it should also be possible to manually add/change settings that
> one could read/write per python script.
>
> Andreas
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