Hi Pablo,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Pablo Carreira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pablotcarreira@hotmail.com">pablotcarreira@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">>I think that organizing better plugins in menus it's the way to go waiting for the new toolbox.</font><br><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">>For example, we could re-organize plugins in Database menu just creating some main </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Tahoma">>sub-classes named as the databases' spatial extensions: "PostGIS", "SpatiaLite", </font><br></div><div class="im"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">>Obviously there are some plugins which are out because either general-purpose or manage </font><br>
<br></div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">I thin that many menu levels is good for new users because it organize things. But for advanced users it slows things because you have to navigate all the menu levels to reach the tool that you want.</font></div>
</blockquote><div>I do not quite agree. <br><br>In this moment you must always navigate at least 2 levels (Database->PluginMenuName-><br>PluginAction), <br>instead after the reorganization you would navigate at least 2 levels and 3 sometimes only:<br>
<br>2 levels if the plugin add only one button (Database->SubMenuName->PluginAction)<br>3 levels if the plugin have more than one button (Database->SubMenuName-><br>PluginMenuName->PluginAction)<br><br>In fact there're only few plugins which have more than one button in their menu.<br>
<br><span class="dct-tt">New users can find a plugins in a easier way, but also advanced users with a lot of installed <br>plugins. Moreover advanced users use almost always the toolbar button to access a plugin.<br></span><br>
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I have two suggestions:</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="text-indent: 0px ! important;" size="2" face="Tahoma">1)A side </font></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font style="text-indent: 0px ! important;" face="Tahoma"><span style="text-indent: 0px ! important; font-size: 14px;">panel with the plugins tree</span><span style="text-indent: 0px ! important;"><font size="2">.</font></span></font></span></div>
</div></blockquote><div>This is the toolbox purpose, a panel with plugins.<br>Waiting for it, this simple reorganization is friendly not with new users only.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">2)Detachable menus, like the older TCL/TK versions of GRASS. Or like the the buttons in OpenOffice that have sub-options.</div></div></blockquote><div>Also this solution requires some work, instead my aim is to make it easier with no effort.<br>
<br>Cheers.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Giuseppe Sucameli<br><br>