[Gvsig_english] copying shape file layers

[Benjamin Ducke]

Sorry, I was getting a bit carried away, as I felt
that the discussion was drifting towards general
aspects gvSIG's GUI design. In my view, Klaus'
original problem was caused by some uncertainty
about what a layer really is in gvSIG, and how it
relates to the actual physical data on the disk,
not so much by the menu label.

As regards the latter:
To me, ("Copy") seems short, clear and unambiguous,
and changing it would not be an improvement.

In fact, a label like "Copy TOC reference" or "Copy layer" 
would leave me confused. Since this is a context
menu function, clearly working within the context of
a layer, I would not expect it to explicitly (re-)state that
context in the label.

Cheers,

Ben

----- Original Message -----
> On 03/08/11 17:31, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> > For these reasons, I am not a believer in masking the
> > de facto complexity of GIS with a GUI, either. Sooner
> > or later, that approach is bound to backfire.
> 
> Benjamin,
> 
> I can't understand how you perceive improving a GUI interface so that
> the function that a particular menu option performs is clear and
> unambiguous, is masking the de facto complexity of GIS?
> 
> -- Cheers Simon
> 
> Simon Cropper
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