[Kmymoney-devel] Re: Review Request: Allow the resizing of the table in the csv importer plugin

[allan]

On 06/01/11 12:30, Cristian Oneț wrote:
> On Thursday 06 January 2011 14:10:07 allan wrote:
>> While the patches certainly simplify things, I don't think that the open
>> office importer UI is a particularly good example to aim for uniformity
>> with.
>
> Maybe we can get a few more opinions on this. I just thought that the user
> should be able to see *before* importing if all the data is there (that's why
> resize to contents should be available). I took a look at KSpread's importer
> dialog and it works like the CSVImport plugin now that is resizing the dialog
> doesn't give the user more space to view the imported data which is wrong I
> think. But we could take from KSpread the tabular approach for the import
> options (it seems more user friendly).
>

As things are, the columns are displayed at default width, which allows 
more columns to be seen at a time, in order to select the relevant 
fields.  They may also be individually dragged to see the full content, 
should that be necessary.  However, I'm OK with full width display, instead.

I hadn't looked at KSpread, and I too like the tabs, although the first, 
data, tab has two check boxes, which threw me at first. There can be 
several header lines - up to 6, I've seen, so I can't see a use for the 
boxes.  Or, there may be none.

>> However, if you prefer it that way, then, OK, go ahead. Are you doing
>> the investment side to match?
>
> I'll do the investments part also and commit if there are more opinions in
> favor of this change. If no one else chimes in I don't now ... :)
>

I suspect not many, if any, general users are yet using it, although one 
or two may still be using the old free-standing app.  They may not be 
regular list viewers though.

 > Don't use KSpread as much of an example, as it is mostly unmaintained.

 > I think you should be able to see all contents before import, and a
 > tabular approach for this kind of data is ok.


See above.

 > Regards,
 > Alvaro


Although I laboured long and hard tweaking the UI to just display the 
data and not empty space, I'm OK with your changes.

Should I look at the tab approach, or do I give priority to your decimal 
separator change?

Allan