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Reorganize MGED menuBRL-CAD
Status: ClosedTime to complete:
48 hrs
Mentors: Sean
BRL-CAD's main graphical user interface, MGED, is heavily menu-driven but not exceptionally well organized. This task involves performing an exhaustive review of MGED's various menus, including temporary menus when in a given editing state, reorganizing them for logical groupings, and rewording them for clarity. It's necessary to learn the basics of the MGED interface in order to understand what the various options do. For this task, you'll provide a description of the existing menus and mapping to a new organization including basic rationale behind any new groupings or rewording. References:
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Uploaded Work
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
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| Under File.pdf | 207.3 KB | December 01 2012 18:18 UTC | |
| Mged.pdf | 410.5 KB | December 02 2012 18:30 UTC | |
| Mged2.pdf | 428.9 KB | December 03 2012 17:24 UTC |
What is actually to be done in this task ??
Didnt get it !! :?
GUI of BRL-CAD (known as MGED) has lot of options which are not well organized. You need to review (when in an editing mode i.e. when you are editing some geometry) and reorganize / categorize them logically. You can also change / modify names of menus / options for more clarity and user friendliness.
You will need to describe existing menus and mapping to new organization of menus and reason for the same. Check reference link given above.
Also ask on IRC. May you get instant help for further questions there.
IRC address: irc://freenode/brlcad
Best of Luck...!!
I would like to work on this task.
This task has been assigned to Ashish. You have 48 hours to complete this task, good luck!
Please see this file in which i have done only 2 tabs
Correct me if wrong
I dont want to do a wrong tihng andthen submit it to you so that it comes back to me
The deadline of the task has been extended with 2 days and 0 hours.
You are definitely on the right track. That's looking fantastic. I noticed you expanded to some panels -- if you like, you can keep those separate and we can turn them into another task. It's enough work to just focus on the menus, no? :)
I will do that only
In this way i can get 2 tasks in one shot
Can this happen ??
It can happen. Just make sure you submit all the menu changes for this one and then claim the panels one that will be published after this one is closed.
The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.
So is it good ??
Congratulations, this task has been completed successfully.
Thank you Ashish! I think there's a lot of good ideas in there that we can look into implementing.
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