Re: [Gramps-devel] A GRAMPS customizable View?

[Rob G. H. <rob...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:49 +0100, Benny Malengier wrote:

> Doug, nice idea.
> 
> However, let's try to get 3.0 finished first, so quick reports, report
> structure, bugs on the tracker. 
> Personally I wouldn't mind if you add this as an experimental feature,
> like MapView was added a while ago, so not visible and not working,
> only appearing if (I think) a key is set and not running stable. 
> As for a name, I think this might be called a canvas.  Certainly not
> Desktop.
> 


    If this is done like Benny Suggests, I would like to know which key
to set........

Sincetrely,
Rob


> Benny
> 
> 
> 2007/12/19, Douglas S. Blank <db...@cs...>:
> 
>         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...)
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