OK I've now reworked it to store the list of map types for which the license has been previously notified. Thus avoiding raising the issue again & again. "Show Map License information for each map type only once. Instead of showing the license each time a map type is added, save the map types already used into the Viking settings and only display when a new map type is used. Settings is extended to handle integer lists to achieve this. Capture changing the map type in the map layer properties which it did not do previously. Also make the map license information available all of the time from the map layer right click menu." Thank you Nick Allen for your feed back as well. I think this new patch covers the situation elegantly. Got to go now, but any thoughts/queries over the new patch are of course always welcome. Be Seeing You - Rob. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you. Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:30:06 +0200 Subject: License dialog (Was: Viking 1.5 Plan to Release by Sept 6th) From: guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com To: rw_nor...@hotmail.com CC: viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, 2013/9/13 Robert Norris <rw_nor...@hotmail.com> Well, I'm nearing completion for 1.5 - which will now be after this coming weekend - to give anyone a chance to use the latest source. There is one last item I would appreciate feedback on (with this patch attached) - this hasn't be applied to the code repository yet... Originally I noticed I had spelt "license" 'wrong' - I had used "licence''. So I was just going to align the spelling, but then it got me thinking: Why do we introduce the "About this License" dialog, every time one adds a map? No other software as far as I know generates such a warning with an interruption to one's work flow. So instead I just shifted it to be an 'About' menu action from the map layer. Thus this license information is always available, which it wasn't before. I introduced this "About this license" dialog. Originally, I do so because it seems really really important to ensure user is informed about the license related to data he works with. I don't know how other similar tools treat such topic. I just know that some other tools working with license (like Eclipse when you install plugins) insert a dialog where the user must accept or decline license, even open-source related licenses. It is good to have such info in a "About" menu, but this cannot be the only solution as it is less informative: a not skilled user won't open such dialog to discover subtilities of map's license, IMHO. Perhaps can we keep an "in-the-flow" dialog, but storing the choice on disk in order to avoid answering the same question again and again. -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- JID: gu...@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefi...@hotmail.com -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/
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