BCDA-APS / gemviz

Data visualization for tiled
https://bcda-aps.github.io/gemviz/
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ENH open tiled server dialog #143

Closed rodolakis closed 1 year ago

rodolakis commented 1 year ago

On Mac, the menu bar of any application is always "detached" from the app windows and shows in the top corner of the monitor.

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On a big screen, that makes it quite inconvenient to go all the way to the top left corner to pull up the open tiled server dialog windows. My first reflex when opening the app was to look into the pull down menu on the right (which is in fact the menu for the catalogs).

Could we add a button to open the dialog somewhere close to the text "Tiled server URI", or even a pull down menu with the following option:

rodolakis commented 1 year ago

We might also want to add a label to the catalog Qcombobox, since it got confused at first

prjemian commented 1 year ago

We could keep a list of all the successful tiled server connections in the user's settings file. That list would populate the QComboBox. While it is expected that most use would only use a single server, this is another It would be nice if feature.