I think on the right is fine. To me that feels better that all the way over on the left.
It's a real bugger that we can't make Qt dock the toolbars inside something else, seems you are constrained to QMainWindow. - Nathan On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Larry Shaffer <lar...@dakotacarto.com>wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madman...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Having the nav toolbar on the side would be ideal if you could dock it on >> the right side of the layers panel. I'm not a fan of having to go all the >> way over the layer panel to access the navigation tools. >> > > That's a very good point. What about the Navigation toolbar on the right, > with the Plugin toolbar filling the empty space at right on the first row > of horizontal toolbars? > > Here's my reasoning. Nav tools are quickly accessible, and when a new user > downloads/installs a plugin, there is already space to show it (assuming > that plugin loads a tool button into the Plugins toolbar). Then the user > can move toolbars to their liking. > > Any other ideas? > > [0] http://drive.dakotacarto.com/qgis/qgis_default_nav-tools-right.png > > Regards, > > Larry > > > - Nathan >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Larry Shaffer <lar...@dakotacarto.com>wrote: >> >>> H Pirmin, >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Pirmin Kalberer >>> <pi...@sourcepole.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Jürgen, >>>> >>>> Am Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013, 08.38:38 schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer: >>>> > >>>> > On Tue, 09. Jul 2013 at 22:55:18 +0200, Pirmin Kalberer wrote: >>>> > > Toolbars: >>>> > > -Turn off Advanced Digitizing >>>> > > -Move Label to second row >>>> > > >>>> > > Panels: >>>> > > -Turn on Layer order and Browser in a tabbed view with Layers >>>> > > >>>> > > Print composer: >>>> > > -Place all toolbars in one row >>>> > >>>> > In case anyone missed it: scripts/mkuidefaults.py produces >>>> > src/app/ui_defaults.h from the current settings. >>>> >>>> Didn't know that. Updated the script to support composer UI defaults. >>>> >>> >>> Couple of other ideas comments, too: >>> >>> * Currently there are no side toolbars by default. Many apps utilize the >>> left side toolbar for critical tools. To me, such tools in a GIS app are >>> the canvas navigation tools. So whenever I to an initial setup of QGIS, I >>> always put the Map Navigation toolbar on the left. >>> >>> * Similarly, I always place the Plugins toolbar on the right side. There >>> is currently a bug that sets that toolbar to not be shown on a default >>> install (that should be fixed). >>> >>> I would like to hear feedback on those two suggestions for default side >>> toolbars. Following your suggestions (and mine), the default window would >>> look similar to this (on Mac) [0]. >>> >>> +1 for removing Advanced Digitizing toolbar as a default, as all of the >>> functions are available in the Edit menu already. If needed, the user can >>> show that toolbar. >>> >>> Another major layout issue is what the layout looks like after turning >>> on all core plugins [1]. Then, what it looks like when all those plugin >>> toolbars are shown [2]. This needs some work. >>> >>> >>> [0] http://drive.dakotacarto.com/qgis/qgis_default.png >>> [1] >>> http://drive.dakotacarto.com/qgis/qgis_default_core-plugins_no-extra-toolbars.png >>> [2] >>> http://drive.dakotacarto.com/qgis/qgis_default_core-plugins_with-toolbars.png >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Larry >>> >>> >>> >>>> > >>>> > So updating it should be easy, once it's decides what should be the >>>> default. >>>> > >>>> > Not sure if the data contains pixel coordinates and if the screen >>>> resolution >>>> > might therefore be an issue... >>>> >>>> Let's try: https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/pull/710 >>>> >>>> Pirmin >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Pirmin Kalberer >>>> Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions >>>> http://www.sourcepole.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Qgis-developer mailing list >>>> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-developer mailing list >>> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> >>> >> >
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