Re: [Gramps-users] [Gramps-devel] blog fanchart

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

Should have send this to the user list too, as some people might be using
the fanchart and have valuable input. Developers sometimes code things to
then not really use it.
So a blog post
http://gramps-project.org/2012/08/fanchart-in-4-0-what-features/
If people have extra ideas on what they would like for the fancharview, you
can post on the blog on on this list.

Benny

2012/8/27 Doug Blank <dou...@gm...>

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Benny Malengier
> <ben...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Wrote about the changes in fanchart on the blog.
> >
> > http://gramps-project.org/2012/08/fanchart-in-4-0-what-features/
> >
> > If anybody thinks some other addition would really be useful, speak up.
>
> Thanks for all the work on this! I don't use it all that often either,
> but it is beautiful (I just implemented the beauty as defined in [1]).
>
> I like the idea of add some of the "Relationship View" functionality
> here: add parents, add person as child, etc.
>
> Some possible ideas (some of these are just thinking-out-loud and are
> not the easy kind of GUI things one could add easily):
>
> 1) Click on the white areas (which means there are more parents to be
> seen) and show them.
>
> 2) Show "how related" to the center person in the hover area of a person.
>
> 3) Crazy idea that might not be all that useful: I always thought it
> would be interesting to have on the side of the main fan chart other
> fan charts. For example, one could show a man and wife, and each of
> their charts.
>
> 4) We could also develop a descendant version where each ring shows
> the children of a person. That would be harder as the percentage of
> the ring would be based on how many children. But one could imagine
> the current chart sitting next to this one to show both directions.
>
> 5) We could have a "button" between the parents to be able to edit/see
> a family. There we could show the same pop-up that we show on the
> Family Tree (goto the children, spouses, parents).
>
> Anyway, I look forward to trying it! (and I see some things in my code
> that could be sped up...)
>
> -Doug
>
> [1] - http://www.cs.utah.edu/~draperg/research/fanchart/draperg_FHT08.pdf
>
> > Benny
> >
> >
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