[Gvsig_english] Further suggestions for improved functionality in the projects and menu system

[Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)]

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY IN  PROJECTS & MENU SYSTEM

(a) It would be useful to group views, tables and maps in the project 
manager or at least be able to move them up or down in the list so you 
can make sense of large lists that have been created/added in an ad hoc 
manner. For example, if you have monitoring sites that are numbered but 
created a map for various sites based on proximity rather than number, 
you may wish to shuffle the maps into logical order to make it easy to 
maintain a project over several years.
(b) all options for a layer, table, map, etc that can be initiated from 
the right-click context menu should be able to be chosen from the layer, 
table or map drop-down menu in the main menu.
(c) icon size in the toolbars should be variable. I find the icons a 
little small especially when using on a laptop. A good example of this 
is the "move vertice" and "copy vertice" icons. These icons appear the 
same -- although on closer inspection you can see a minor difference. If 
the icons were 50% bigger most of the finer detail distinguishing 
buttons would be obvious.
(d) A list of recently opened project files available in the main menu 
would be advantageous.
(e) The list of views in the project manager should show so basic 
property details like 'projection' and 'comments' in a way that you 
don't have to enter the properties dialog box to see this detail. For 
tables see the 'encoding' and 'comments' would be useful, and for the 
maps 'comments'.
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Cheers Simon

Simon Cropper
Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.
P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.
mailto: scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au 
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