[Uml-devel] Usability

[Thomas Zander]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:23:48PM +1100, Paul Hensgen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Any help would be welcomed Thomas.

Great!
 
> Andrea is right.  Next Thursday is my last exam and I will be starting to
> code again.

Never said I can't code :)

Well, I had a free day today (its 16:00 now) and I have taken a look at the
CVS version of the code. I made a diff of my work, maybe you can incorporate
it in the release version, which would be great!

the diff is here:  http://www.tips.nl/~zander/uml-updates.diff in a readable 
format so you can comment, if you have the time, naturally.

For the changelogs;

fix for crashes;
  don't update object in view when no view exists after OKing a diag (twice)

additions;
  added the views menu

changes;
  removed the Properties groupbox around 2 tabs, this takes space and is kinda 
  useless.. (plus no other KDE program I know does this)
  Changed the Colour groupbox to not say Colour with _every_ option included in that 
  groupbox, which makes things more readable.
  Same for visibility (I removed "show" for every option there)
  Renamed the "Options..." dialogs to "Properties" (for consistency)
  Renamed the "Properties..." dialogs to "Properties" (According to styleguide)

Open points;
  I created a dialog in designer (hope the QT2 designer can load QT3 files..) for the
  attributes and the operations tabs. As using the RMB menu in a dialog does not strike
  me as very intuitive...
  See: http://www.tips.nl/~zander/properties.ui and
    http://www.tips.nl/~zander/properties.png

  I think it would be nice to create an insert menu which is the equiv. of the RMB menu on 
  the tree structure.

questions;
- why is the 'import class information' not present in the File menu ?
- is it easy to import java classes with this / create an importer ?
- why is the options tab->Colour included with the properties dialog? This is an application
  configuration.
- what is the area I can RMB click on (in the class diagram) for associations (i.e. the arrows) 

Hope you like it!

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new