[Qgis-developer] New composer's title

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi,

I specifically added that dialog, since so many times my composers resulted
in unrecognizable names. I believe without it many users will suffer from
this as well. However, I'm not necessarily keen on its implementation, but
wish not to remove the functionality, just move it elsewhere. The new
naming functionality (e.g. to quickly base a name off of an existing
composer, etc.) is already part of Composer Manager, so nothing needs
changed there.

A better solution when creating a new composer, and gently nudging the user
to set a name for it, might be to move the dialog's widget functionality to
a 'Name' field at the top of the Composition panel.

Then, when a user creates a new composer and the main window is shown, set
keyboard focus to that field and set its background to a color to signify
the user should consider entering a unique name (e.g. pale yellow). The
background could be on a singleshot timer so that it fades out after a bit.

This would only be when creating a new Composer; and, since the field could
already have a generated name inputted, the user can just choose to ignore
it. This also means that GUI scripts don't have to deal with the current
interim dialog.

Regards,

Larry


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> +1 for removing it. Maybe an auto-generated name that does not clash
> with existing composer names would be useful - which the user can later
> on rename.
>
> The user will have to set paper format anyway. In this step he can also
> set the composer name.
>
> Andreas
>
> Am 25.01.2014 09:04, schrieb kimaidou:
> > Hi Martin
> >
> > +1 for removing it, as it is a step I usually skip too. But only if we
> > provide a input field in the composer properties tab to allow to
> add/change
> > the name directly in the opened composer (above the paper size for
> > example). This way I won't need to open the composer manager only to
> rename
> > it afterwards.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > 2014/1/25 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Is there any good reason for the small pop-up dialog asking for
> >> composer name when user wants to create a new composer? There is the
> >> composer manager where the composer can be renamed at any time, so to
> >> me it looks like an unnecessary step and I would be happy to remove it
> >> :-)
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Martin
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