Hi Julio, On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Julio Castillo <juli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using grass for a while and now I would like to help on > grass develepment. Recently I sent a patch to fix a minor bug on > r.mfilter.fp that was giving me some trouble. Now, I found some stuff > on the wxpython GUI that, IMHO, can be improved.
Improvements are always welcome (especially as patches)! > I noticed that the tree control for selecting layers can be improved > with the following changes: > > 1. Highlight the selected layers in the popup. For example, if I > select layer X and then want to select something else, X should appear > selected when opening the popup again. Also, if there is a selection, > the first selected item should be visible after the popup > appears. There seems to be some work on this direction on gselect.py > but it doesn't work (at least on my computer). > > 2. Allow multiple selections without closing the popup. Currently, if > you want to select multiple layers, you have to open layer control once > for every layer. I think that it would be useful if you can select > multiple layers holding down Shift, for example. > > 3. Some sort of filtering once you open the popup. This can help you > find and specific layer quicker. > > Points 1 and 2 are not so difficult, in fact, I already have something > very basic that does this. Point 3 seems a little more difficult but > if there is some demand for it, I guess it can be made. > > I would like to know your opinion and if you think that these > improvements are worth the effort. IMHO usability improvements are a good thing. As you may have noticed, the wxGUI development is underpowered, so contributions are very important. Please don't hesitate :) Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev