[josm-dev] Tagging Presets

Christoph Eckert ce at christeck.de
Wed Oct 17 22:37:50 BST 2007


High,

> The menu items should be "grayed out", if no item "on the map" is
> selected. Otherwise you'll enter stuff, and then notice that nothing
> was selected and your entry is lost ;-)

you even want a mechanism like "Gray out all menu entries which do not 
fit the current selected data type" (to avoid mapping of nodes as 
highway=residential, BTW there are a lot of them in the planet file - 
thus its size ;-) .

> We should try to merge the icons between mappaint and the presets
> wherever possible. This makes it easier to work with - it's a bit
> strange to see a different icon in the menu and "on the map". And I'm
> really not want to say that "my mappaint" icons are better than the
> preset ones - in fact I tend to use some of them in mappaint ;-)))

Most icons have blatantly been stolen from web resources like 
commons.wikipedia.org. Most of them have been derived from SVG images 
showing german road signs. Thanks to SVG it was relatively simple to 
cut/copy/paste some stuff together. Inkscape can then export raster 
graphics in the desired size.

> Would it be possible to use submenus to select things (where
> possible)?

A point worth a consideration. My personal opinion is that submenus are 
a nightmare for average users. That's also one reason why I tried to 
keep the most often used dialogs relatively simple. If those provide 
proper TAB orders, respond to enter and ESC and maybe remember the last 
used settings during a session, it should be possible to work 
effectively with them.

> Of course, this is not possible for the more
> complex dialogs like the "Restrictions" dialog.

This abbsolutely is the dialog I hate most, even that it's still 
useful :) .

Cheers,

ce





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