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Some are simple layout items.
Like the progress dialog from adding all via the Settings tab the Addon Manager has the Cancel over top the last (rightmost) portion of the progress bar.
That progress bar may be necessary due to space constraints in the Status bar. But it causes confusion in the dialogs. Canât a more conspicuous version of that widget be used? In long processes, users will walk away and want to be see status from across the room.
0013623 Addon Manager progress bar overlapped by Cancel button when installing plugins
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Should the order of databases be reversed int he About Gramps dialog now that sqlite is the default backend and BSDDB is secondary? Or should the order be based on the selected preference?
0013624 About Box - Remove unimportant BSDDB version reporting to offset complexity added by new orjson version
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Fair question, but it doesnât seem to to have anything to do with the 6.0 beta?
I understand that many things get noticed during beta testing because people are looking more closely, but I hope that newly discovered âoldâ issues can be separated so that they donât delay the release of 6.0.
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The new Help in the Tool Selection and Report Selection dialogs is contrary to other Help buttons in other dialogs. You would expect that the Help to be for the dialog. The Addon Manager and Plugin Manager Enhanced use a Wiki button for documentation about the selected item. (Granted, the help_url can point to other https:// URLs rather than the https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php? standard prefix.)
0013625 New Help button in Tool/Report selection should be labeled âWikiâ to conform with other âselectedâ object help.
Bugs are being reported to MantisBT already against Product Version 6.0.0-beta1.
Tweaking UI items has no place in the development cycle.
Early in the cycle, interface is too likely to change. Change rates and pressure are too high as it approaches freeze - developers are cutting the ToDo list rather than adding interface items, average users cannot experience the interface (beta releases packaging is a recent thing) until a package is released, feature freeze is already declared before package release, interface refinements are an âenhancementâ not a bug so they will not be accepted for a maintenance release.
So Beta feedback is the ONLY opportunity to even have the POSSIBILITY of a UI tweak.
MantisBT. Select â6.0.0-beta1â as the product version.
You can also discuss a bug on this forum, but please create a bug report.
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The BSDDB package is only required to read old databases in order to upgrade them. It is no longer possible to create a family tree with a BSDDB backend.
Maybe BSDDB version should be excluded from being reported in the About box⌠it just confuses users and the data can be collected from the Prerequisites Gramplet in the Dashboard category.
orjson version reporting was added. Lets take an unnecessary line away too avoid adding to the complexity level