[udig-devel] Time to say Goodbye to Style View?

[Paul Ramsey <pramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just shows how little time I have lately, this is my first > 2 minute  
review of uDig in months and months.  The 1.1 series is looking great  
so far, though performance on OS/X remains gooey.  On the plus side,  
I can accomplish things like viewing data and whatnot on OS/X which I  
could not in the 1.0 series.  All this as an aside to my question...

- Given that the right-click "Style" option on a Layer in the Layers  
view pops up a dialogue containing Thematic and Simple styling
- The existence of an equally named "Style" view at the bottom,  
containing *only* a Simple style panel (and no obvious path to the  
thematics) is confusing indeed.  How about we finish the transition,  
and admit that yes, we are going to suck it up and do our styling in  
a dialogue, period.
- If we go 100% dialogue, it would make sense for "Simple" to be the  
default starting option rather than thematic.

On the thematic stuff, playing with it shows just how complex the  
problem is, and how much work is involved in addressing it.  Good  
work Cory!  Note that the widgets don't quite layout perfectly in OS/ 
X, there is some scrunching around the edges.  Probably the main  
additional feature that leapt out at me as desirable was "memory"...  
having twiddled the knobs to get just the right theme, if I come back  
to make a minor adjustment, I have to re-twiddle them all again,  
which is a pain.

Minor aesthetic question, there is a dropdown with "type filter text"  
at the top of the style panel... it is sort of extraneous given the  
three highly visible options...