Re: [Gramps-devel] GUI changes

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

On 18/09/12 22:40, Tim Lyons wrote:
> If you want to improve the interface then you probably have to consider
> radical changes, rather than rejecting things that do not preserve the way
> you do things now.

There have been discussions about re-designing the Gramps interface.

1644: need to brainstorm alternatives to the current sidebar/navbar

http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=1644

3630: Make Clipboard and Editors working into SidebarView

http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=3630

This may have been before you started to contribute.  Do you have any ideas?


>
> I suggest changing the category names in the category sidebar to dropdown
> menus with the views in them. This reflects that the views are actually
> sub-divisions of the categories. It would mean that you could see which view
> was selected in any particular category before clicking on it, and if that
> was not the view you wanted, you could click on the drop down indicator and
> select the one you wanted. So the category would appear as 'People' or
> 'People tree', 'Places' or 'Places tree', 'Pedigree chart' or Graph chart'
> or 'Fan chart'.
>
> So each category would be something like the 'Family Trees' button on the
> main toolbar. Clicking on the current name ('People tree') would switch to
> that category with that view. Clicking on the down diamond would bring up a
> drop down menu to select the view you wanted.
>
>
>

You can actually write your own sidebar plugins.  I created a couple of 
examples, but the idea never took off.

Let me know if you are interested and I'll point you in the right direction.

There are probably some enhancements that need to be made.  At the 
moment I think that all sidebar plugins are active at the same time, so 
you may have to remove the category sidebar plugin to remove the toolbar 
view buttons.

Nick.