[Kst] update changes

[barth.netterfield at utoronto.ca]

So.. you are basically suggesting that we revert the change where we went to
change in only one place...

I'm not opposed to that - anyone else?

cbn

Quoting "Brisset, Nicolas" <Nicolas.Brisset at eurocopter.com>:

> > Right.... you need 'update multiple...' for view objects.  
> > Its on the list - it won't make into this friday's DR, 
> > obviously, but maybe we can try to do it for
> > 1.3 in a month or so... 
> Multiple view objects edition sounds good (even though the names would
> need to be changed to reflect their nature before it can be used for
> legend property setting) :-)
> 
> Now, I've been thinking about this legend stuff quite a bit (from a
> usability/user's perspective), and I have the feeling that we should
> address the issues we have anyway. What I would suggest is to keep the
> "Appearance" tab of the plot dialog for what its name implies: change
> appearance. We could keep the new "Match contents to plot" button (the
> feature can be useful in some cases) but add it at the bottom of the
> "Contents" tab, in a "Legend contents" section where we could have that
> and a "Customize legend contents" button. That way, there would be a
> clear separation between contents and appearance, which is clearly what
> the tabs are trying to suggest.
> Building up on this, here are the concrete changes I'd suggest (I'm
> ready to open a bugzilla entry for that if it can't be implemented
> quickly to avoid it getting lost):
> 
> - in the plot dialog/"Appearance" tab, add back all legend and legend
> box appearance options (as previously) so that they can be set for all
> plots when the user chooses to apply to "this window"
> - move the "Match contents to plot" checkbox to a "Legend contents"
> section in the plot dialog/"Contents" tab so that one or all legends can
> be reset to plot contents
> - move the current "Modify" (or "Edit" ?) button in the legend part to
> the "Contents" tab as well, and call it something like "Customize legend
> contents". It would call the upper part (contents) of the current legend
> modification dialog.
> - make it so that that a right-click on a legend opens an aggregate
> dialog with both contents and appearance parts (whether the code behind
> it can be factored being a pure developer's concern :-))
> 
> This is sort of going back to the previous situation (with some
> improvements, though) but the fact that nobody complained about its
> usability for quite a while (until bug #120484 came, and the changes
> were made before we realized after some time that they created some
> usability issues) is a sign that it wasn't so bad. In fact, the way I
> see it we broke something that was OK when trying to add the content
> customization feature in the wrong place.
> 
> Thoughts ?
> 
> Nicolas
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