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More Intuitive UI Suggestions #325

Open kjpearson opened 7 years ago

kjpearson commented 7 years ago

Here are some suggestions for making the UI more intuitive. I think I have mentioned some before but I don't know that they were recorded anywhere so I've made an issue for them.

mzuehlke commented 7 years ago

Hi Kevin, thanks for this good suggestions.

JanisGailis commented 7 years ago

Moving the issue to cate-desktop.

forman commented 7 years ago

Moved away by accident

kjpearson commented 6 years ago

Hi

I think these have been lost along the way. I believe that the first bullet now happens but not the others? The ability to select or draw a region of interest and have that easily available to relevant functions would be very useful. It would speed up the interaction and make it easier to explore the dataset. Just being able to "play" with datasets easily like that would be very attractive. I came back to Cate after a break and it took me a while to find the place marker tab but there doesn't seem to be a way to import these without copying the lat/lon into the location dialogue boxes by hand.

forman commented 6 years ago

@kjpearson

The ability to select or draw a region of interest and have that easily available to relevant functions would be very useful.

This has been done in 2.0.0dev.2 (#401)

Add a tooltip to the cursor when hovering over the globe with the location and resource value.

Displaying a variable's values is ongoing, see #505

Add a right click context menu that contains some useful functions like: tseries_point for that location,

We'll do that for the 2.0, I just created #542, e.g. add to context menu all operations that have a region or point argument. See also #489 and #502

... tseries_point wanted me to add a location but I couldn't see any way to specify this except by typing the lat, lon. ...

Should have been improved by #502 in 2.0.0-dev.1 but I agree it would be better to click a point on the globe while users edit operation parameters (just fetching a point, no new placemark). Now users must close the dialog, click a point and then come back.

When a timeseries is created, create a plot tab by default. Opening a dataset plots the first variable on the globe by default.

Let's discuss this in detail! I also need to explain why is currently doesn't open the time-series plot.

Opening remote data sources and downloading. It would be helpful to have a warning about the size before I started the download.

I fully agree, see new #543

forman commented 6 years ago

User defined geometries:

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