[Gramps-users] Some thoughts on usability

[Martin S. <mar...@ma...>]

I've been adding families to a database. The following are remarks, or
questions, or suggestions, about some aspects of Gramps' behaviour that
have been bugging me.

1. In the People view, if I choose 'Name does not contain' in the find
menu, and search for people not called 'Smith', the menu immediately
reverts to the default, i.e. 'Name contains'. Why? Why not leave the
menu at the last user setting?

2. I want to say, too, that the Gnome search thingy, the one where you
just start typing, doesn't work for me. At least, not in the People
view. It's just too slow (it can't keep up with my typing), and it's too
dumb (it only understands initial sequences). The search bar is okay,
but it needs a key binding that takes me to the text box. I don't care
so much to be taken to the 'Find' button. I could get there from the
text box, or I could just hit enter. Alt-F doubling up on 'Family tree'
and 'Find' isn't too good either. Amarok provides an example of a search
bar that works pretty well.

3. On a somewhat different topic, say I have some Smiths in my database,
and want to add them one by one to the Smith family. What I need,
really, is for the 'Select Child' window to remember that I'm dealing
with Smiths, and open in the same place, i.e. amongst the Smiths, the
next time I call it. It doesn't. Instead it reverts to the top of the
list, with only family names showing.

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Martin