On 28 November 2016 at 21:59, Alexandre Neto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nyall! Thank you for your reply. > > A sex, 25/11/2016, 22:09, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> escreveu: >> >> >> I love it! >> >> Stuff like this is a great jumping in point where anyone can get >> involved. It's just a matter of trawling through all the dialogs and >> collating a list of strings which need changing. If that was done then >> someone with commit rights could fix these in a couple of minutes. The >> hard bit (and the bit where ANYONE can help) is making the list in the >> first place. > > > I will gladly work on that list, but I was hoping that, under the idea of > "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you > feed him for a lifetime", with a gentle push from a developer, I could > directly fix some of the problems.
Even better! Just ping if you need assistance :) Nyall > >> >> Some more suggestions (which again, anyone could help with identifying): >> >> - replacing "non standard" icons. We still have some inconsitently >> used icons (such as the expression builder icon) used throughout qgis. >> - dialogs which violate hig conventions: >> - use of ":" at the end of strings >> - bad tab order >> - group boxes with just one widget >> - bad/inconsistent capitalisation in strings, dialog titles, and tooltips >> - widgets without tooltips (or non helpful tooltips) > > > Maybe I will start by gathering a list of issues to search for, before I > start looking into each dialog. Those above are all good candidates. > >> >> >> >> >> These are also issues for plugins, so collating lists and opening bugs >> against plugins would also help. >> >> > >> > Help and Documentation >> > - Most of our help buttons lead to nowhere, we already talked about >> > pointing >> > them to the User's Manual online (although we would need a solution for >> > working with it offline and in different languages) >> > >> > Defaults >> > - Should default selection color not be opaque? >> > - Showing only selected features vertexes by default? >> +1 >> >> > - Map template, we could provide a very simple template as default (I >> > think >> > there was already some discussion about this); Most people I see gets >> > very >> > confused when they see a completely empty page. >> >> Depends how it's done. I don't think it should always open with a >> template, but including some nice templates with qgis would be a good >> start. > > > We could have a few options when creating a new print composition keeping an > "empty" option on the top. > - Empty () > - A4 landscape > - A4 portrait > - plus list of recent user's templates > >> >> >> Another idea I'd love to see for 3.0 is switching the main ui to using >> monochrome "symbolic" icons. I think this could really refresh the >> interface and avoid the ui from taking attention away for the content >> (ie, the pretty map you're making). I tried making a script to auto >> convert the icons as a test.... and ended up with a horrendous result >> which had to be burned in a furnace and scattered on the four winds. > > > It would be nice if we could get some graphic designer to make them > distinctive enough. > > Also, it would be nice if special care is taken so that they work with the > the dark theme. > >> >> Nyall >> >> > > Alex Neto > -- > Alexandre Neto > --------------------- > @AlexNetoGeo > http://sigsemgrilhetas.wordpress.com > http://gisunchained.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
