[Marble-devel] Review Request: Add an "Edit" button to launch an OSM editor with the current view

[Markus Slopianka]

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I think the "Edit Map" menu entry should be in the Edit menu. Where else would a menu entry about editing be other than that menu? ;-)
Looking at your editor selection screenshot, I think it's not the perfect solution for the following reasons:

1.) For only a rather short list drop down menus are counterproductive. Simple radio buttons work better usability-wise in cases for up to ~5 possible options.

2.) I don't think screenshots are needed. The map view in all editors looks rather similar anyway, meaning the screenshots don't add any value.

3.) The editor descriptions suck. ;-) Every one of those three editors "is an OpenStreetMap editor using the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) principle", not only Meerkartor. ;-) I don't have good descriptions available right now but it'll be helpful to merge this patch long enough before the string freeze to allow me or someone else to refine the descriptions. :-)

- Markus


On 2010-09-16 20:48:27, Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-09-16 20:48:27)
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> Review request for marble.
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> Summary
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> Adds an "Edit Map Externally" menu item in the main application (currently Qt only) that does either:
> - open a web browser using potlatch (flash based osm builtin map editor) at the current view (default)
> - execute josm or merkaartor (whichever is enabled in settings)
> - update a running josm or merkaartor if they opened a server at localhost:8111
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> The choice which application to use (potlatch, josm, merkaartor) is left to the user. A running server is detected automatically if josm or merkaartor is selected by the user. The default choice is potlatch because it will be usable for most users out of the box (requirements are a web browser with flash support).
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> Most of the implementation is done in ControlView, i.e. outside lib/, but easily shareable between qt and kde main applications. I can implement it in its own class if you think it clutters ControlView too much.
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> The edit button is visible always currently. It may be better to hide it for map views other than openstreetmap to avoid confusing users.
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> Please note that josm and merkaartor should not be too outdated, especially for their server applications.
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> This addresses bug 240968.
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240968
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/ControlView.h 1175778 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/ControlView.cpp 1175778 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/QtMainWindow.h 1175778 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/QtMainWindow.cpp 1175778 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt 1175778 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/lib/ExternalEditor.ui PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/lib/ExternalEditorDialog.h PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/lib/ExternalEditorDialog.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/lib/MarbleNavigationSettingsWidget.ui 1175778 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/lib/QtMarbleConfigDialog.h 1175778 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/lib/QtMarbleConfigDialog.cpp 1175778 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble/src/marble.qrc 1175778 
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> Diff: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/4461/diff
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> Testing
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> Tested with konqueror for potlatch. Tested Merkaartor 0.16.1. Merkaartor 0.16.0 may work (not tested), older versions lack the server. Tested josm version 3329. Note that you need to enable the server explicitly for merkaartor (tools => settings => network) and josm (edit => preferences => plugins, install and enable the remotecontrol plugin)
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> Screenshots
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> marble-external-map-editor-selection.png
>   http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/4461/s/504/
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> Thanks,
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> Dennis
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