[Gvsig_english] SUGGESTED FUNCTIONALITY gvSIG 1.9 (BN 1253) -- Customizable Toolbars and Menus

[Simon Cropper]

Ben,

Thanks for the feedback.

I knew that you could turn off certain toolbars but this is not the
problem. Congested toolbars containing things I don't need is my problem
and a desire to simplify various menus/toolbars to avoid confusion.

Your suggestion of changing the config files is a good tip but is not
really obvious. 

Thoughts that come to mind...
1. It would be desirable to have a dialog where things can be adjusted
rather than directly editing the underlying files. Although, having
recently converted to Ubuntu, this comment probably applies to all Linux
Software.
2. It would be desirable that your selections are stored in a 'user
preference' file that is respected and recognized with future versions
so that your selections would not be lost the next time you upgraded the
software; otherwise you are creating, dare I say it, a partial fork in
the distribution tree. maybe gvSIG should be modified to allow
regional/industry/personal customizations to be readily imported via the
main menu.
3. It would be desirable to hide certain things at certain times as some
icons are not really relevant at certain times and are at others.
4. It would also be desirable to loose the icons but leave the menu
option. I suspect this option is already available as some menu options
don't have corresponding icons (e.g. select  by layer).


Cheers Simon

        Simon Cropper
        Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
        P.O. Box 160 Sunshine VIC 3020
        P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
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On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 16:41 +0000, Benjamin Ducke wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> 
> actually, toolbars (and menu entries) are already fully
> customizable. Every extension that registers a toolbar icon
> or menu entry comes with a config.xml file.
> 
> Look for the <menu> tags. They are easy to understand.
> If you want to get rid of a whole group of icons, then gvSIG 1.9
> lets you do that too, straight from the main menu. Unfortunately,
> many of the same have garbled names, so it is hard to understand
> which entry name relates to which icon group.
> 
> In the OADE version, we went through a lot of pain to reorganize
> and relabel all those toolbar entries to make them easier to manage.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Cropper" <scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au>
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> Subject: [Gvsig_english] SUGGESTED FUNCTIONALITY gvSIG 1.9 (BN 1253) -- Customizable Toolbars and Menus
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> It would be advantageous to have toolbars and menus customisable. 
> 
> There a quite a lot of tools that could be hidden to reduce clutter on the GUI interface. 
> 
> A good example is the multitude of selection tools - select by point, select by rectangle, select by polygon, select by line, select by circle, select by buffer, select by throwing a dog over your shoulder - these could be left in the menu and most except for a few core tools removed from the toolbar essentially simplifying the GUI and making it less cluttered. 
> 
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