Beta1 "GUI" - Feedback

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Continuing the discussion from Gramps v5.2.0-beta1 released:

@Nick-Hall

GUI

• Fix for panes that are unable to be resized.
• Backup: Add a modal status popup This is used to prevent the user closing Gramps during a backup. Fixes #12846, #12475, #12538
• Fix ColorButton size in preferences.
• Display a tooltip warning if a window saves data immediately. Fixes #12117
• Move privacy column in editor citation tabs.
• Add Preferences and Addon Manager toolbar buttons. PR#1139
• Update Tip of the Day entries.
• Provide better formatting for the import statistics. Also fix concatenation bug.
• Enhance InfoDialog to display simple tables
• Add “All supported files” as file type selection. Fixes #12161
• Date input: allow yyyy-mm for iso format.
• Add option to hide ages for events after death.
• Correct spelling of “vCard” in importer.
• Add option to control display format of latitude and longitude. Fixes #11248
• Allow entering place latitude and longitude without space.
• Use replacement text for blank surname heading in person tree.
• Improve description of regular expressions in filter editor.
• Add Back/Forward labels to citation tree view. Fixes #12510
• “Number of Parents” column in Person Views doesn’t sum all parent. Fixes #12268
• Symbols enhancement:
  • Add the possibility to set all default value to a string.
  • Gui configuration improvement.
  • Possibility to drag and drop a symbol from the symbol list.
  • Replace death symbol by buried, cremated or killed symbol depending on the event type.
• Fix spelling of “Descendants”. Resolves #12535
• Provide an option to “hide” the LDS tab. Immplements #3872 PR#951.
• Add possibility to select the dialect of CSV export. PR#1314
• Add Abbreviation column to source and citation selectors. Implements #11710
• Update confirmation message in the export assistant.
• Implement calendar quarter dates as date ranges. For example, “Q2 2020” is converted to “between 1 April 2020 and 30 June 2020”.
• Use a contrasting text color in pedigree view. White text shows up better in boxes with a dark background color. Fixes #11799
• Allow user to set default calendar in date editor. Fixes #11809
• Update Preferences dialog. Clean up of existing Preferences tabs. Implements #12049
• Add Phone/Postal to Addresses tab of Person editor. Fixes #11600 PR#1019
• Update address lists. Capitalize postal and phone column headers. PR#1019 revision
• Fix presumed typo in menu item “Sorts events” should be “Sort events”.
• Move beta warning into the status bar.
• Increase information in database summary text report. Add type counts for events, places, sources, citations, repositories and notes.
• In familysidebarfilter, search on each part of name. Fixes #12023
• Add tooltips to sidebar filter ‘Find’ and ‘Reset’ buttons. Issue #11783
• Media view: Set new media as active.
• Typo on variable name in navigator. Fixes #12039
• Pedigree View: Add Help context menu. Fixes #10919
• EditLink: When changing the link type choose the active object as default.
• EditLink: When creating a link, prefer linking persons over places, events, …, and images.
• Allow filter rules to access Family filters.
• Add a new person filter rule ‘HasAddressText’.
• New Remove tag from selected rows functionality.
• Add ‘HasAttribute’ filter rule to repositories, sources and citations. Fixes #9845
• Add tooltips for places in clean input data tool.
• Improve CSV import to allow places that are not in enclosed order. Fixes #11407
• Update tags: Translation for menu strings added and escape illegal characters.