[Gramps-users] Re: [Gramps-devel] 0.9.x Function/usability nits

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

Don, 

My comments are intermixed below.

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 15:02, dpe...@si... wrote:
> Here is what I think is the most annoying behavior:
> When deleting a person from the database, after the person is removed, the 
> view is set to the "A" tab (or, more precidely, the first tab for which 
> there are members in the database) automatically.  This may be a 
> reasonable behavior if you've just deleted the last person in a given 
> "letter tab", but I would have expected the view to remain on the same 
> page.

I'll take a look into this. This should be fairly easy to fix.

> First, I have a problem with the place view occasionally going blank.  
> That is, nothing appears.  No alternating colored bars, no text, nothing.  
> Just a blank page.  It has happened both with the sidebar view and the tab
> view.  Gramps still knows about the places because their names appear in 
> drop-down lists in other dialogs; you just can't see/edit/sort them in the 
> Place View. Re-opening the database has "fixed" this view problem.  Note 
> that I did not have to exit gramps, merely open a DB (either a different 
> one or the current one), in order to restore this visibility thing.  I'm 
> suspecting this may be a GNOME/GTK widget issue...has anyone else seen 
> this?

I haven't seen this directly, but I just did fix a similar problem with
the Person list after a filter is applied twice. If you can give me a
way to reproduce this, I can make sure that I get it fixed.

> Second, the handling of place names in the drop down lists is a mystery.  
> They appear ordered in a pseudo-random manner.  It's somewhat random to me 
> because it's neither alphabetical nor numerical by place ID.  It's only 
> pseudo-random because the places seem to come up in the same order every 
> time.  I would expect the drop down list to be alphabetical.

Its  probably sorting by ID number instead of by title. I'll look into
this as well.

> Finally, is there a way to configure gramps to pad its internal ID numbers 
> with leading zeros?  It would be nice to see P001 P002 ... rather than P1 
> P10 P11 ... P2 P20 ...

Ah, I can answer this on :-)

Bring up the GRAMPS Preferences dialog box (Settings->Preferences).

Click on Database, then GRAMPS internal IDs.

The default ID is "I".  Change this to "P%O4d". This uses C style
indicators, in this case meaning 4 digit number padded with zeros.

Don

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Don Allingham <dal...@us...>
GRAMPS - Open Source Genealogy