What parts of Gramps do/did you find to be overly complicated? Are there UI functions that are too messy? Too many ways to do something? Are there features that are hard to use? Hard to discover? Do you have ideas on making Gramps easier not just for beginners, but for those that know Gramps too? …

[image] dsblank: Yes, we should re-visit every Category and either add good gramplets, or remove bar. That is one of the things that @cdhorn mentioned when he was building a statistical analysis Dashboard CardView. He could not find the way to initiate a new view with the sidebar and bottomba…

[image] emyoulation: He could not find the way to initiate a new view with the sidebar and bottombar disabled nor simply hidden by default. I’ll take a look to see what is need to add that functionality.

[image] Ian Davis: Perhaps when I click the + button I get a drop down showing my preferred events followed by “Other…” A long press on the plus button brings up this menu, and a single press displays the current behavior.

[image] zed: When one selects “People” view, one has to additionally click into the window to be able to activate search by Ctrl+F. This seems to be one unnecessary click. I asked a similar question a long time ago. It concerned whether the menu shortcuts in the main interface should remain …

[image] emyoulation: CardView Speaking of Cardview, something that would be nice to have using the regular Gramps is its Tags view. It’s particularly useful for searching for or modifying something. I use the regular Gramps view to sort or edit tags, and the Cardview to find where a tag is a…

When Graph View with Show Tags option is selected, give an option to display tag text, tag color, or tag text inside the colored box. I find it difficult to keep track using color alone when looking at the chart. While a tag color key would be nice, putting the tag text into each person’s box would …

In principle would be a good idea feel it would take up to much screen space particularly when having multiple tags could it be done by message box appearing when hovering mouse over tag phil

[image] dsblank: [I think a built-in Gramps definition of terms and concepts would be great. But I see that isn’t the suggestion.] It is only preliminary, but @kmikkels and I have a (barely functional) tri-lingual Gramps terminology cross-reference. It links terms to the various localized Gra…

[image] dsblank: And maybe expose the folder names/locations to the user in a better way It is very doable to dynamically update the shortcuts in the Gtk File Chooser to be synchronized with changes to the Media Path. And other paths that you might want exposed. [file selector Gramps 5.1-W…

Another point: ensure that the citation page column (which is what is interesting in a citation) is displayed at least as wide as the source column in the citations tabs: [image] Note: This is not the Citation Title (Titre) but the Source Title in first column, it could be after citation page and…

What do/did you find to be the most complicated parts of Gramps?

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What do/did you find to be the most complicated parts of Gramps?

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