[Gramps-devel] user ideas

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

Hi,

The forwarded message seems to have some useful ideas:
1. Clicking on the box in Pedigree View to make the person active
2. Add "Export finished" dialog to gedcom export.
3. Some other UI suggestions
4. Request for an additional view with all the names, in a separate tab.

Details are below,
Alex

----- Forwarded message from Jeroen van der Vegt <ajv...@12...> ---=
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> > Ideas for the pedigree view:
> > - I'd like double clicking on a person to 'activate' that person for
> > example. That way I can navigate without using the arrows on the left
> > and right.
>=20
> Double-click on the line coming to the left of the person's box. This
> would make it an active person. It says so in the status line when
> the mouse comes over the line and the line gets highlighted. Also, read
> the Help (F1 or Help->User manual), it should be detailed enough=20
> and up to date.

Yeah, I noticed this later as well. It's quite hard to click on a line
using my touchpad unfortunately. Is there a good reason to use the line
and not just the box around a person's name?

> > Too bad GEDCOM exporting doesn't work yet though....
>=20
> This comes at a great surprise: GEDCOM exporting works since very early
> versions, and definitely you can't say it does not work with 1.0.0 :-)
> Have you tried it and had errors? It is under File->Export-Export to
> GEDCOM menu. Please let me know in what way it "does not work: :-)

Since you asked I tried it again. It seems I was wrong, fortunately :)
Has it been changed the last couple of months perhaps? Anyway, I
exported and got this small window with three progress-bars. They
fill-up to 100% within a second, leaving me with only a 'close' button.
Nothing happens from then on. I figured something was wrong, especially
as the resulting .ged file didn't look good in an text-editor.

Only today I tried importing the .ged file into an empty database
though, and that seems to work fine. Apparently the file-format is just
a bit weird (no nice XML or anything :)).

Sorry if I scared you by mentioning this! :) But perhaps their could be
a more explicit message when exporting finishes successfully...


I found out about the 'tabbed' and 'sidebar' viewing modes. Isn't it a
bit strange to have such a change in views activated with a checkbox?
I'd say it should be radio buttons in the preference menu. And I'd put
the 'filter' checkbox somewhere else as well: if you don't have the
'people'-view activated you don't see what it does.
And would it be possible to add an 'all names'-view to the people view,
so I can filter with all names visible? (next to the
a-b-c-....-y-z-other tabs).


Thanks for creating this very nice program!
Regards,

Jeroen.

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