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

[<dpe...@si...>]

Hello,

I have a couple of nits about the current state of gramps 0.9.1-1 of which 
at least one I'd like to see addressed before the next release.

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.

My other nits have to do with the handling/display of places.  

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?

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.

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 ...

Cheers,
-Don
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Donald A. Peterson       | dpe...@si...
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