# What confusing GUI can be easily disambiguated?

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**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [July 14, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/what-confusing-gui-can-be-easily-disambiguated/9712 "2026-07-14T18:01:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/what-confusing-gui-can-be-easily-disambiguated/9712/11 "2026-07-15T21:48:45Z")

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Without comment, let me tell you the story of one of my very first experiences as a (pretty highly) tech literate newish user in the **6.0** Windows environment.

Hmm, I wonder if there is a way to simplify data entry…

Let me search the Discourse and the Wiki for ideas…Solution! There is a great addon called Forms Gramplet and if that doesn’t work, maybe the Data Entry Gramplet, or the Import Text, or the… Cool! I love open source!

So, I went to the [Addon Manager](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_Glossary#addon), downloaded Forms Gramplet, got it up and running, and realized I didn’t like how its census dating system overrode my data.

OK, no problem, I will uninstall it and try some of the other addons, that’s the joy of software where everyone can add stuff! So many new things to try (or make)!

How do I uninstall this?

_\*wiki search\*_

```python
Create the page "Uninstall" on this wiki! See also the search results found.

Gramps 5.0 Wiki Manual - What's new?

```

_\*blink\*_  
_\*googles\*_

Ok, handled not in the [Addon Manager](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_Glossary#addon) but the Plugin Manager? Great, will go there to uninstall.

What the hell is hide?

_\*wiki search\*_

```python
Create the page Hide on this wiki! See also the search results found.

De:Gramps 5.0 Wiki Handbuch - Kategorien

```

_\*annoyed google\*_

I need to download another addon from the [Addon Manager](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_Glossary#addon) to upgrade the native Plugin Manager into the Plugin Manager Enhanced to allow me to uninstall an addon because the native [Addon Manager](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_Glossary#addon) doesn’t manage the addons? Seriously?

\*rage quits\*  
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