Re: [udig-devel] Alternative Map Perspective

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John:

I was testing the 1.2-M7 release today - and was sad to see your style
perspective had not been included? I find the current "alternate" map
perspective to be pretty sad :-)

Do you think you can commit this for the next release?

Jody

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:46 AM, John Hudson <John.Hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey all, been a little busy with other things this week but today have some
> time to play.
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> I have finished the Alternate Map Perspective and created a JIRA for it:
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG-1559.
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> One last thing I’ll throw out to the community before check-in is this
> little quandary: Should I change the name of the Alternate Map Perspective
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> I’m a +1 for “Style Perspective” or something similar.
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> From: udig-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:udig-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 10:16 PM
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> To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS
> Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Alternative Map Perspective
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> I really like it! Great work - and congrats on Jim for what I hope will be
> his first commit :-)
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> On 07/08/2009, at 4:12 PM, John Hudson wrote:
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> We have been playing around with a styling perspective (Jim is interested in
> this) so we have come up with an Alternative Map Perspective, see attached
> jpg.
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> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: udig-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:udig-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of andrea
> antonello
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:32 PM
> To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS
> Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Alternative Map Perspective
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> Hi John,
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> I am still laughing about your email. Great observation! :)
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> You are right and I thought about the purpose a thousand times. I
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> guess that is to show to the user that and alternate exists. And I
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> think it is very important that a user even casually get's to change
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> the windows. I have users reporting that they have huge issues with
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> the windowing system of udig, but once they get used to it it is a
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> great poer.
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> So probably the best thing to do would be to make a better alternate
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> perspective. Perhaps you can propose one? I do not know, perhaps it
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> could contain some views that are usually not opened.
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> Ciao
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> Andrea
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> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:37 AM, John Hudson<John.Hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hey,
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>> Jody G has asked Jim G and I to have a quick look at the Alternative Map
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>> Perspective:
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>> As its horriby disfigured!
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>> I can’t fix this before deternaning why this Perspective even exists?
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>> I have uDig 1.1.1 and it suffers a similar fate, so this perspective is
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>> Anyone shed some light on this? Should I fix this, or just remove it
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>> Thanks,
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