Qt Mainwindow skeleton done. [focus on menus]

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The export will likely have to be a submenu. Export currently has uddf and direct upload to divelods.de and could easily be increasing if other export formats are seen to be beneficial (now that the infrastructure is in place). However, the relationship between divelogs.de and webservice uploads needs to be thought over...

MiikaOn 4.4.2013 15:47 Amit Chaudhuri wrote:
Hi,


here's a proposed outline of a remodelled set of menus. Top level entries are marked with asterix. Menu items are prefixed '>'.


I don't think we need sub-menus, but for the view stuff (relating to the main 3 GUI elements only) I think an additional context menu might be worth it.  Qt menu stuff makes that very easy.



Square brackets around the main rationale for each section.


Various comments added inline.


* File * [All major app, config & file operations]

> New
> Open
> Save
> Save As
> Close
----------
> Import
> Export
----------
> Print
----------
> Preferences       // zoom toggle moves to here; so does filter events & autogroup
----------
> Quit


* Dive Computer * [Dive computer operations or equivalent]

> Download
> Edit device names
> Renumber
----------
> Add dive


* Web * [All web operations]

> Web Download
> ..??                // what else might we do with the web service?


* Planner * [All planning stuff]

> New plan
> ..Copy plan         // if we need new plan features they live here
> ..Delete plan       // these two [copy, delete] sprung to mind as examples


* View * [Window & view management]

> Info               // maybe add Ctrl+F6 & shift Ctrl-F6 to cycle through these 4? 
> Profile            // Plus context menu..?
> List
> All
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> Statistics
----------
> Locations          // the map stuff (or maybe move to Web section?)
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> Next Computer      // what do these two do - maybe move to Dive Computer
> Previous Computer  // if these relate to dives grouped by DC?


* Help * [User help & info]

> About subsurface
> Help
> ..Report bugs      // 
 


I wonder about an alternative scheme which has an explicit 'edit' top level menu.  In that scheme one might group the preferences and any editing functions here.  Edit / add dive / plan / locations / preferences....but not sure that's necessary/desireable if the gui elements allow in place editing nicely.

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