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

["Vitali Diatchkov" <vitali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi! My opinion that "Style view" must be present as an option. If you work
with dozens of maps, layers, etc. and don't need advanced styling based on
rules, whatever, and you need just simple styling capabilities that "Style
view" provides, in that case having this view saves the time a lot. I work
under the project where the users perform such simple styling operations
over lots of layers and it really is simpler to select layer in "Layers
view" and just tune the style in "Style view" that is opened also. 
So I would like to keep simple "Style view" and it is up to user to open the
advanced style dialog  (where simple styling widget is presented also) or
use this simple old "Style view". let's give an option to users.

I agree, if to refactor the code a bit in a such way  that all style editors
from simple "Style view" can be managed as a one component which can be
integrated into the view, dialog, whatever, then the there is no problem at
all :)

Vitali.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: udig-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:udig-devel-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:33 PM
> To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS
> Subject: [udig-devel] Time to say Goodbye to Style View?
> 
> 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...
> 
> 
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