Re: [Gramps-devel] [Gramps-bugs] Add people in GRAMPS

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

The silverlight demo this bug list user brings to our attention has a lot of
bling Doug will like (age statistics gramplet with bar chart in the future ?
):

2009/2/15 SCTW . <sc...@ho...>

>
> Adding people in GRAMPS is cumbersome. Will it ever be easy to add users in
> GRAMPS as it is in Family.Show? (click on a person, add (mom, dad, sibling
> etc), fill in details , click save etc.)
>
> http://www.vertigo.com/FamilyShow.aspx
>

Note that they made it _for_ Microsoft. I guess a show of what silverlight
3.0 can do.

SCTW, to answer your question, what you suggest is easily done, but I don't
have windows, so can't really compare here with this specific product. I'm
not sure anybody will implement it though as the difficulty in genealogy is
not in adding people, but in having the connections between people correct.
Doug made a date entry gramplet though that normally will be a third party
plugin to quicken entry of people. It will not be official part of GRAMPS
quick though as things stand today.

If you open the family editor in GRAMPS, you click a button, start typing a
name to select father, ...
That is not more work. Clicking add allows you to create a new person and
add it. It gets difficult if you have alternative names, specific events,
contradicting sources, priests names you want to add, ....
If you start from a specific person, then you use the relationship view in
GRAMPS and add parents, spouses, children, ..., keeping the clipboard at
hand to drag and drop returning items

You should not be distracted by the nice visuals, you must envision you
having 600 people in your database, and you need to add one, reusing places,
sources, and putting the connections in place with existing people.
That is quickly much more complex than adding your own family.

Note to developers: the source of this is free to download, but the license
does not allow us to read it and contribute to GRAMPS, *so don't read the
code.* Feel free to read their licence which is called EULA.txt:
http://www.codeplex.com/familyshow/SourceControl/changeset/view/12528#182524

Benny