Changed Open/Import Project Page

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 14. July 2010 14:25:26 David Nolden wrote:
> > Hi, I've noticed that when I do "Open/Import Project", I first get the
> > page to obtain the project from the web now.
> >
> > I think this shouldn't be there, but there rather should be a separate
> > menu entry "Import Project from Repository" or something like that,
> > where that stuff could exist.
> >
> > "Open/Import Project" was dead-easy and super fast before, and I think
> > this makes the dialog too slow. We could also think about renaming it
> > to "Open/Import Local Project" or something like that, to clearly
> > distinguish both menu entries.
>
> While I agree that I'm also sometimes hit by the extra step, I'd still like
> to
> see whether we could not maybe find a different solution.
>
> I often find it (personally?) very confusing when I open a dialog that does
> something similar to what I want to do, just to see that it's not supposed
> to
> be used for what I want to do. Meaning:
>
> I don't like the idea of having two dialogs to do nearly the same thing.
> Could
> we not find some other solution that keeps the current status (one dialog
> to
> import a project) but somehow improve the UI/usability to make it fast once
> again to import a local repository?
>
> Imo a good solution would already be to put the second page file selection
> into
> the place of the "working directory", when source == "do not obtain". To me
> the working directory is simply obsolete.
>
> And since switching the source already changes the UI below, I think we
> could
> just reuse that?
>
> What do you think?
>
> Bye
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> Milian Wolff
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Yes, that's what I meant by finding a better solution
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