[Qgis-developer] Visualisation of relations

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 10/31/2016 01:26 PM, Patrick Valsecchi wrote:
> Matthias,
> 
> Hummm... I don't know about the tabs. Initially I was thinking it would
> be a good idea, then I tried to imagine how it would look like for
> linked layers within linked layers. We would have two choices:
> 
>   * Have QTabWidget within QTabWidget: tabs within tabs is a UX nightmare
>   * Switch to the current way of representing relations for
>     sub-relations: that would lead to user confusion because we have two
>     ways of representing relations.
> 
> What do you think? To me, tabs is not a good idea.

I think the (current) groupbox within groupbox approach suffers from the
same UX defficiencies. At least I get confused regularly.

Maybe

* toplevel tabs
* first sublevel groupbox
* second sublevel ...
  groupbox again?
  skip?
  button to open in separate window?

Matthias