[Lazarus] Screenshots with a header

[Santiago A.]

Hello Juha Manninen:

I find the interface of profiles a little confusing:

1) As far as I have understood, there is a default profile, the one that
is used when you select the menu option "Build lazarus". If this the
case, the buttons up down have no sense because the order of profiles
has no meaning, it's not like a list of paths or cascade rules. It 's
confusing, the user may wonder "What happens if I move a profile up or
down? is the building system going to apply them in order?". I think it
only needs a button "Set this profile as default".
2)  Each profile should be saved separately. When you click edit a
profile, the profile form should open in a new form with buttons save
and cancel. I don't like the idea of saving other profiles I don't see
and that I may have changed without realizing.
3) If you edit a profile in a separated form, you can't show details as
you do now. There are two options:
a) Reuse the edit form, instead of the label or icon "edit"., you may
use a more generic label "Properties" so if the user wants details opens
the edit form and cancels.
b) Add at the bottom of  the form the detail, as user can't change (now
uses the form), you needn't radiobots, just label "Widget: GTK", so you
don't need so much space.

So the interface needs:
- Show which is the default profile (perhaps adding the string
"(Default)" in the listbox of profiles)
- A button  to set the default profile to the selected one.
- A delete profile button.
- A "new" profile button that opens the form for edting. Perhaps
intializating the data, except name, with the current selected profile
- A "properties" button, that open the form for editing the profile. Or
an "edit" button that opens the form, and add to the list form a way
display details of the selected profile.

- The save button  for the full list disappears.There is nothing to save
but the default profile.
- The editing form, besides the current data, needs a name. We could
also remove the rename button from then profiles list from.

Excuse me my broken (and perhaps rude) English.

Regards
Santiago A.
svaa at ciberpiula.net

El 14/12/2009 21:17, Juha Manninen escribió:
> Something like this:
>
> http://koti.phnet.fi/juhamann/Lazarus/BuildLazSimple.jpg
> and
> http://koti.phnet.fi/juhamann/Lazarus/BuildLazDetails.jpg
>
> Juha
>
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