[Qgis-developer] Any UI/UX plans for QGIS3?

[Nyall Dawson]

On 26 November 2016 at 08:09, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 November 2016 at 21:22, Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> QGIS 3 is getting lots of love, and we are seeing new features being added,
>> some legacy code being clean up, and so on. We are all aware that this will
>> break the 2.x API, but now it's the time for it.
>>
>> So I wondered if this is not the perfect time to think about some UI/UX
>> changes as well, as it will lead to more work in translation and
>> Documentation. Could we do a list of UI/UX stuff that we could improve?
>>
>> I can think of a few things:
>>
>> Consistency
>>  - "search", "select" and "browse" for browsing files;
>> - "Add saved file to map", "Load into canvas when finished", "Open output
>> file after running algorithm";
>> - there is more of these for sure;
>
> I love it!
>
> Stuff like this is a great jumping in point where anyone can get
> involved. It's just a matter of trawling through all the dialogs and
> collating a list of strings which need changing. If that was done then
> someone with commit rights could fix these in a couple of minutes. The
> hard bit (and the bit where ANYONE can help) is making the list in the
> first place.
>
> Some more suggestions (which again, anyone could help with identifying):
>
> - replacing "non standard" icons. We still have some inconsitently
> used icons (such as the expression builder icon) used throughout qgis.
> - dialogs which violate hig conventions:
>     - use of ":" at the end of strings
>     - bad tab order
>     - group boxes with just one widget
> - bad/inconsistent capitalisation in strings, dialog titles, and tooltips
> - widgets without tooltips (or non helpful tooltips)


Another one I forgot to add (a bit unrelated):

- lots of the processing algorithms don't correctly handle z/m
geometries and the changes are often trivial to allow them to. I'd
love to see someone generate a list (based off master) of all the
algorithms which currently don't maintain z and m values and which
should.

Nyall


>
>
> These are also issues for plugins, so collating lists and opening bugs
> against plugins would also help.
>
>
>>
>> Help and Documentation
>> - Most of our help buttons lead to nowhere, we already talked about pointing
>> them to the User's Manual online (although we would need a solution for
>> working with it offline and in different languages)
>>
>> Defaults
>> - Should default selection color not be opaque?
>> - Showing only selected features vertexes by default?
> +1
>
>> - Map template, we could provide a very simple template as default (I think
>> there was already some discussion about this); Most people I see gets very
>> confused when they see a completely empty page.
>
> Depends how it's done. I don't think it should always open with a
> template, but including some nice templates with qgis would be a good
> start.
>
>
> Another idea I'd love to see for 3.0 is switching the main ui to using
> monochrome "symbolic" icons. I think this could really refresh the
> interface and avoid the ui from taking attention away for the content
> (ie, the pretty map you're making). I tried making a script to auto
> convert the icons as a test.... and ended up with a horrendous result
> which had to be burned in a furnace and scattered on the four winds.
>
> Nyall
>
>>
>> Alexandre Neto
>> --
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>> ---------------------
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>>
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