The simplification of dates would only be for Living or Private Persons. (Or Family Events with a living/private person.) So you might see a living “Jane Smith, born 18 Aug 1957 with a thumbnail” show in presentation mode a Female color rectangle and a generic outline with “2nd cousin, born 1950s”
The use case is:
- demonstrating to a group of genealogists. Where I can navigate my personal database to deceased relatives in this view… which gives the audience an contextual overview before switching to a different view
- presenting to family members during holidays/reunions. Where some have exaggerated privacy paranoia
- navigating for tutorial videos
Disabling the edits for living/private is because I almost always accidentally twitch a wrong click during fast navigation during presentations.
To start, this should be a proof-of-concept, simply an option in the View configuration. If it could be expanded to the whole program, other enable/disable GUI could be considered. (Including but not limited to: passworded settings, a separate View-only or Presentation version of Gramps)