AW: AW: [Qgis-user] Undo and redo editing

[Düster Horst]

Tim 
 
>Its great that we are adding advanced features but we 
>should remember our 'roots' in being an easy to learn, easy to use GIS. 
>Part of that is achieved through keeping UI complexity to a minimum. 
 
You are right when you say what our roots have been. But with the time the amount of new features grows rapidly. QGIS is matured to a Desktop-GIS system with a wide spread of potential users, with the claim from very easy to use up to advanced user. I believe that we can satify both user groups. Disable digitizing - as an advanced feature - will make QGIS to an easy to use Desktop-GIS. Yes in my opinion digitizing is an advanced feature at all. Thus I think there are no conflicts between easy to use and pull down buttons or short cuts etc. 
 
 
Regards 
Horst 
 
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Von: Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> 
Gesendet: Mit, 17.6.2009 13:38 
An: Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> 
Cc: Hugentobler Marco <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> ; Düster Horst <Horst.Duester at bd.so.ch> ; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org 
Betreff: Re: AW: [Qgis-user] Undo and redo editing 
 
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Hi 
 
 
Micha Silver wrote: 
> Hugentobler Marco wrote: 
>  
>> Hi Horst 
>> 
>> I also like to have the node tools in a pull-down menu. 
 
 
For me I prefer the current arrangement - 2 toolbars. The user can elect 
to hide & show one if he likes. Pull down toolbar icons are IMHO very 
unintuitive and require two clicks to get at every function (may as well 
use a menu then). Its great that we are adding advanced features but we 
should remember our 'roots' in being an easy to learn, easy to use GIS. 
Part of that is achieved through keeping UI complexity to a minimum. 
 
So -1 from me... 
 
>> 
>> Still I think the separation basic editing toolbar / advanced editing 
>> toolbar makes sense because some advanced tools are probably used less 
>> frequently, so user should have the possibility to show/hide this 
>> toolbar depending on his current task. 
>> 
>> My suggestion is to hide the advanced editing toolbar by default (for 
>> the first start of qgis) such that user interface seems less 
>> overcrowded for new users.    
> +1 
 
+1 
 
>> Also, I'd like to move the split feature tool to the advanced editing 
>> toolbar as it probably is used less frequently than 'add feature' and 
>> the node tools. 
>> 
>> What do you think? 
>> 
>>    
> +1 
 
+1 
 
Regards 
 
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