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[udig-devel] [jira] Created: (UDIG-350) Confusion - styling 
Confusion - styling
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         Key: UDIG-350
         URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG-350
     Project: uDIG
        Type: Improvement
  Components: style  
    Versions: UDIG 0.9    
 Environment: all
    Reporter: dblasby
 Assigned to: Justin Deoliveira 


Thanks for the improvements to the styling system - but here's some thoughts/question:

1. The little "apply" button.  It took me quite a while to find this. This is an eclipse-ism that should be made MUCH more obvious.  Most people will be used to a pop-up window with an apply button on it.

2. The pull down box with only "Style Layer Descriptor" - whats that about?

3. Whats the cancel button do?  You can push it even when its not activated.  It appears to work as a "revert" button.

4. I found the set of enable-disabled icons on the top a bit counter-intuitive.  Perhaps a set of tabs instead?  This will take some thought and doing...
The big red square looks like some type of warning...

5. style view goes inactive when you're zooming around the map

6. it appears the 'default' styles do not necessarily reflect whats on the screen.  (make a new layer, go to style and it doesnt necessarily match whats shown in the style menu.  Hit apply and it becomes consistent)

7. Outline of width 1 appears to mean "dont draw outline".  

8. I havent played much with the labeling - but I like what I see.  I noticed two things for polygons:
   a) centre of label should be in the centre of the polygon (currenly start of label is at centre of polygon)
   b) consider clipping the polygon to the view, then putting labels in the clipped polygon.  Watch for topology exceptions when you do this.  Consider not doing this if the polygon is really really big (ie. poly.getNumPoints() > large threshold) since it can be slow.

9. Line label placement is a bit "funny".  It would also be nice to have a "above line", "on top of line", or "underneath line" option.

Good job, though!


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