From: Rob G. H. <rob...@gm...> - 2007-12-19 06:36:50
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Dear Doug: I took a look at your idea on the website, and I love it! I would absolutely love to have something like tavailable, and I know it would save a lot of time and clicks for sure! It would have the most important information and tools that I use all the time right in one quick place! I vote absolutely YES, and suggest it be done! Sincerely, Rob On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 22:49 -0500, Douglas S. Blank wrote: > Sometimes when I'm debugging, I find myself doing the same repetitive > mouse clicks over and over again to, say, select a report from the menu, > run it, and reload the plugins. I started thinking about little > "scriplets" that could save some time and mouse clicks. > > I had also been thinking about a main view in GRAMPS that I (as a user) > could customize by putting some common people, tasks, or notes onto. > Something like Google's Gadgets (http://www.google.com/ig) or Mac's > Widgets (I think they call them). > > Here is a mock-up of what this might look like: > http://doraemon.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/desktop.png > > I'm thinking that there could be a new type of plugin (a gramplet?) that > would define a quick link to some existing GRAMPS functionality. > Initially, this "Desktop" might just be a place for users to put shortcuts > to quickly bring up a person, family, report, tool, etc. As this > developed, there might be more sophisticated gramplets, some that I > suggest in the mock up (the todo list, for example). The links to database > objects would, of course, change based on what db you had opened. Other > gramplets are db-independent. > > A year ago, I would have thought that this would just be too hard. But > I've now seen what gtk can do, and think that it wouldn't take too much. > (The gtk table in the textview was amazingly little code). > > I certainly don't want to bury GRAMPS in features, but something like this > seems to be a nice way for people to customize GRAMPS the way that they > want without inflicting their view on others. Your GRAMPS "Desktop" (can > you think of a better name?) can then be made to your order. > > Let me know what you think. > > -Doug (taking some time to dream outside the box...) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel |