Re: [Gramps-devel] New scheme for managing databases in 2.3+

[Richard T. <rjt...@th...>]

On Monday 26 March 2007 09:24, ben...@ug... wrote:
> Quoting Don Allingham <don...@co...>:
> > What I am not sure of is how to allow a user to open a GEDCOM or GRAMPS
> > XML file. These files are actually real files, not symbolic names, and
> > would not fit well into a database manager dialog. Probably the best
> > solution would be to only allow editing of databases. You would need to
> > import into a database - no direct editing of XML or GEDCOM files.
>
> A difficult one. For simplicity, only allowing database is perhaps
> best. On the
> other hand, the code now is oblivious to the backend, so why not use
> it's power
> and allow editing of xml, with direct save?
>
> I would suggest as File menu:
> 'New..'  --> new database
> 'Open...'--> database dialog
> 'Open recent' --> list of recent databases
> 'Open File' --> direct opening of GEDCOM/XML (reading only?)
> 'Import' --> import database/gedcom/xml in the working database
> 'New & Import' --> import database/gedcom/xml in a newly made database
>
How about:

'New ...'
'Open ...'
'Open recent'
'Open external' --> would prompt user to decide if they wanted to edit implace 
or create a new database from the external file.
'Import ..'

Regards

Richard