[Kst] update changes

[Andrew Walker]

I think Nicolas raises several issues. However, to deal only with
the suggestion that we go back to the ability to edit the legend
properties in the plot dialog:

Not a good idea for several reasons:

We want to move the plot dialog away from the Apply To
concept and switch to multiple-editing (as is already done for
several objects)

The old system was confusing as you could edit the same
object in multiple ways.

A plot no longer really has the concept of a single legend (though it
is hacked in some places)

We should instead move to the edit-multiple method for the legend objects.

Andrew

On May 31, 2006 11:34 am, barth.netterfield at utoronto.ca wrote:
> 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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