Hi Jesse,
Here is the kind of useless feedback you can get only from me ;-) Before
you think is is all negative - I was able to run uDig for a full day of
abuse without restarting - I really wish we were not hung up on edit
tools as this is all a vast improvement from udig 1.0.6.
Cheers,
Jody
Add Layer from DnD
- No longer shows up as "Map 1" instead takes on the layer name of
"Parks". This makes it hard to unambigously refer to things in the
Project view (there are now two things called Parks).
- Add layers page where you select a layer has lost it wizard banner
Navigation Tools
- is refresh still needed?
- pan and zoom have a drop down menu but no other options available (it
would be fun to shorten up our control if their our no more options).
Only reason to keep it? If the drop down shows more information - and it
does it lists the name of the command, however the tooltip for the
command is not available from the drop down (it is when the tool is the
one selected).
-- change tooltip to be two lines Name of Command / Description of Command
-- (optional) remove the drop down list if there is only entry - in
order to save on the room taken up by the down arrow
Grouping of Layers in a WMS request
- I was able to get things out of sync by, dragging parks up above
bathymetry, and changing its opactity. After that point the entire WMS
was at 50%, changing it back to 100% resulted in two blocks (using Mylar
to show this). Borders cities and parkers were one block and Bathymetry
a second.
Catalog context menu
- the most common thing we do is add a layer to the current map; this
options should be first and perhaps even be the default? As it is Julia
accidently hit the first option and created a new Map.
Map graphic
- Scale bar is fun; but I can no longer change the style from the Style
editor; even bringing up the style editor no longer works. Many layer
options (such as zoom to layer) should not be applicable to scalebar.
File > New Map
- Create Feature Type should be "New FeatureType", and it should be
either in the list for this perspective (ie above the line) or only
available via the Other ... menu. The other menu needs to be the last
one in the list.
Toolbar "New" not sure if we need another "Other" option here or not?
- the Map is correctly selected in the Project view (yeah!), it now
appears at the "top" of the project which is a change.
Project > Add ....
- what the is with these multiple short cuts, Contorl-L and "A"?
- The wizard is no longer called "Add Layers to Map" but instead the
title is empty? The loss of context is not good ...
- "next >" is available to press the whole time; at best it will be
pressed with no feedback and we will stay on the same page ... at worst
we will be taken back to the "Data Sources" page with no feedback (the
same go back to the start action happens when pressing "Finish").
- if you ever do press back "< back" and then "next >" loses all
conneciton information will be lost
(Found out that postgis at www.refractions.net username password had
changed - even so the error was not reported)
The following was in my logs ...
Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf
entry for host "64.180.213.172", user "postgres", database "demo-bc"
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.doAuthentication(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:275)
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:94)
at
org.postgresql.core.ConnectionFactory.openConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:65)
Catalog Import
- starts up normal import wizard; could we just skip to the Data import
page? As we are supposed be context sensitive and if we import anything
other than data it will not appear in the catalog view?
- We have the correct title this time (Catalog Import) so that is nice
Mylar;
- map decorators such as the legend or scalebar look a bit silly when faded.
Searching;
- when starting a search the progress monitor shows a message about the
map rendered (the progress view shows the map as rendered but finished,
and the search happening as the second job). Is the map render job being
properly completed?
- The search view hangs so badly we should just remove it (my entire
machine is starting to suffer, and the udig window will no longer
refresh, did we get in the event thread?)
I am going to quickly send this message before I lose anything....
- okay I waited it out (it was pretty scary)
- checking if I was out of memory - help about shows we are started with
eclipse.vmargs=-Xmx386M, that java process had 196,736K so that is not it
- the search results are back; it felt like a really long timeout in the
ui thread
Cheers,
Jody
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