Hi Nathan
This looks great to me and it's an excellent initiative.
My only concern is that if "the advanced search" is plainly replaced by
"Advanced" it may not be clear what's behind it
Could "search" and "search advanced" not be replaced by an icon, whereby the
advanced one would have the same icon but with a "+" or so?
Best wishes and thanks a lot
Stefaan
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From: Nathan Woodrow <madman...@gmail.com>
To: qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org; qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Monday, 14 November 2011, 9:54
Subject: [Qgis-user] Proposed attribute table UI redesign
Hi all,
Today I was looking at some different ways to redesign and optimize the
attribute table UI and have come up with a design that I think works well but
would like to get some feedback first.
I have made two screenshots, showing the old and new dialog at the same size
and using the same Qt theme.
Just a plain comparison screenshot : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6170988/Plain.png
Comparison screenshot with notes : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6170988/Noted.png
The main things are:
1. Make the min row height to 16. This removes the empty space below
the text in the current UI and allows more rows to be shown with less wasted
space.
2. Reduce some of the margins around the controls.
3. Move the search stuff to the top in order to give search text more
space and group the items better. All search options at the top.
4. Replace Advanced search button with a hyperlink style button. This
is less distracting from a UI point of view IMO.
5. Remove Search button as Enter on the keyboard does the same thing.
Is a button really needed?
6. Split buttons at bottom into two groups. Actions for current
selection and stuff that only works in edit mode e.g. adding new column. Over
all you can show about 4 more rows depending on the theme. Having the search
at the top for me feels better as it is less cramped then where it is now and
makes more sense to click Show Selected Only and seeing the results below.
Anyone have any thoughts about the design?
- Nathan
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