Bug 282

Summary: general usability comments
Product: MapLab Reporter: Debbie Pagurek <pagurekd@agr.gc.ca>
Component: SECT (Studio)Assignee: maplab-dev <maplab-dev@lists.maptools.org>
Status: NEW    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description From 2004-03-11 14:52:32 
Feels like I have to "click" a LOT!
For instance, when creating a new symbol, the dialog box pops up empty without 
even one symbol in left column for me to work with.  SO I have to add one, 
click on it in the left column, click all this stuff to make the symbol, then 
click apply AND click OK.  Once it is appearing correctly in the editor, why do 
I have to click apply before clicking OK in order for it to be saved? Can the 
OK button be changed to be more like an 'apply and submit' button"(eliminate a 
step)?.

When saving an sld, the save box popup remains open even after the save is 
complete.

Some help buttons or brief description would be useful in the symbol editor 
(and probably other places). It is initially very confusing when you don't know 
that you have to build a single symbol up with several layers.
------- Comment #1 From 2004-03-15 16:36:39 ------- 
Again this is where the library of styles would fit in very nicely one would
start by selecting an existing style, and then only modify what was needed.  the
user would immediately understand that complex styles are actually layered
simple styles.

I agree that there needs to be some descriptive text in the SECT windows, much
like we do in many Chameleon widgets.