[Gramps-devel] Display Name Preferences

[Douglas S. B. <db...@cs...>]

I've committed a change (trunk 9476) that I'd like to get some feedback
on. The change removes the "Name Display" tab of the preferences and moves
a single selection and an edit button to the "Display" tab. Clicking
"Edit" brings up a dialog that allows the creation of additional name
display patterns. I think that there are some good things about this:

1) it simplifies the preferences dialog by getting rid of a tab, and
removes the format-examples table from that tab

2) it removes the old edit format dialog and replaces it with an in-place
editor in the table which appears in a new dialog

3) the new dialog can be reused and called from other places

4) a lot of code could now be deleted

There are still a couple of other little things missing: a displayed list
of all of the keywords (in a user's own language), and a
keystroke-by-keystroke update example. But those can be added if you like
this change. Also, the  "Edit" button could be replaced with an icon or
other word.

Let me know what you think.

-Doug