Re: [Rosegarden-devel] RFC: Creating a dialog for selection and a window for creating guitar chords

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Saturday 22 Oct 2005 07:46, Stephen Torri wrote:
> I am at a point where I need to wonder what is helpful for creating
> and selecting guitar chords. The GuitarTabEditorWindow class inherits
> from KDialogBase which makes it an excellent place to select guitar
> chords. What it does not do is provide an easy way like the XML GUI
> code of the KMainWindow for creating the toolbar and menus. I want to
> ask the GUI experts is it more of a hassle for users to use one
> window for everything at the risk of being overcrowded versus using
> two windows for distinct purposes (one for editing/creating and one
> for selecting)?

Well, the first thing I'd say (as a disclaimer) is that our record on 
making complex dialogs that are intuitive and simple to use is not very 
good (see: Bank Editor, Device Manager etc).

My feeling is that it's probably nice to have a very simple selection 
dialog with an option to open the complex editor and manager.  Your 
current dialog is arguably more sophisticated than a very simple 
selection dialog would be, in my mind, because it allows the fretboard 
to be edited even if it doesn't have any mechanism for saving and 
managing the results.  If a simpler dialog than that -- that is, only 
one that offers you a selection from the known existing fretboards, 
displays the resulting fretboard, and does nothing else besides insert 
it -- would be too basic to be useful, then it may be better to have a 
single combined editor/selection dialog instead.


Chris