User poll: what are you most interested in being developed?

Development
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Without GraphView I never would’ve committed to using Gramps when I was starting out. It’s great!

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A small thing, but from a users standpoint it’s confusing and doesn’t make sence to keep the built in [help] plugin manager when it can be replaced with the plugin [edit] addon manager which is superior. Likewise, the plugin Notes gramplet could entirely replace the built in Note gramplet.
Otherwise, I concour with the poll, the interface is what needs development, and every single user would benefit. The number of mouse clicks needed to edit basics, for example a birth- or marriage date is pretty hefty. I think the Geni.com approach to data entry for a person is pretty practical and could serve as an inspiration.
More themes could also spice things up, but I guess that’s not really a developer issue, but perhaps the few themes we have could be acessed so the user can edit them, similar to how a user can configure the person card now.
But hey - Gramps is great!

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In fact, neither of those examples is quite so clearly superseded by a single version. There would be significant integration work needed to drop to a single version.

The Addon Manager/Plugin Manager/Plugin Manager enhanced each cover different plug-in management areas.

  • Addon Manager addresses ONLY addons (not built-ins); their Installation and updating. And simplifies access to externally curated collections of Addons and user documentation.
  • Plugin Manager (original) addresses installed plug-ins (built-ins as well as add-ons). Uninstall, Hide/Unhide, get info, edit the source code. (Does not support Installing/
  • Plugin Manager Enhanced does everything the original does but in a single tab GUI instead of 2 tabs, integrates the Info readout, allows searching, allows filtering sets (hidden, built-ins, add-ons), identifies which are addons vs. plugins, has wiki lookup for each plugin.

The Note and Notes plugins are likewise not equivalent. Where one has inline content editing and shortcut to the Person and Family Editors; the other has navigation between multiple notes and a shortcut to the Edit Note dialog.

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FIne, but merging them to one would reduce complexity, wouldn’t it? Is there really a need for similar and partly overlapping items? Would clear up the interface a bit…

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