Bug 87465

Summary:	Prompt to use wizard or open file on kst start
Product:	[Applications] kst	Reporter:	Rick Chern <rchern>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Rick Chern <rchern>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.x
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Rick Chern 2004-08-18 22:13:41 UTC

Version:           1.0.0_devel (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
OS:                Linux

(non-important wish below)

When kst is started without any data files, plots, or .kst files, instead of displaying a blank window, there could be a dialog that lets the user select from 2 options:
 - open existing file (with a list of recent files below, and a text field with button that pops up a file browser dialog)
 - import data using data wizard

Selecting an option and clicking OK will either open the file or start the data wizard.

At the bottom of the dialog would be a Close/Cancel button to close the dialog without doing anything, and a checkbox that says "Show this dialog at startup".  Unchecking it would prevent it from showing in the future.  In the Kst Settings dialog, there could be an option called "Show QuickStart dialog on startup", in case the user wants to enable it again. 

There could be command-line option to surpress the dialog for that instance, no matter what the setting is.

Comment 1 Rick Chern 2004-08-25 21:02:15 UTC

I will start working on this if there are no objections.

Comment 2 Netterfield 2004-08-25 23:32:54 UTC

I surveyed the BLAST team on this.

4 in favor of the current behavior.
1 in favor of a popup as suggested (needs variety of options)
1 in favor of a jpg (?????) [this is probably a joke].

So - if you are going to do this, make it user-turn-offable....

cbn

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Comment 3 Matthew Truch 2004-08-26 19:47:55 UTC

The startup dialog looks good.  I think if one enters a valid data source, and clicks on "datawizard", the datawizard should start at the field selection pane, not at the data source selection (normal data wizard start), as one has already selectetd the data.

Comment 4 Rick Chern 2004-08-26 20:03:14 UTC

CVS commit by rchern: 

Clean up the quickstart dialog and implement its remaining functionality. 

CCMAIL: 87465@bugs.kde.org


  M +6 -2      kst.cpp   1.221
  M +1 -1      kst.h   1.104
  M +12 -1     kstquickstartdialog_i.cpp   1.3
  M +215 -154  quickstartdialog.ui   1.2

Comment 5 Rick Chern 2004-08-26 22:47:36 UTC

The file field is intended to be associated with the "Recent Files" list, so I think it makes sense to only use it for *.kst files (in the latest dialog, this is made more clear by grouping the two together, and by separating the Data Wizard... button from the other buttons).

Comment 6 Rick Chern 2004-08-26 23:34:40 UTC

CVS commit by rchern: 

Change caption to indicate that files are Kst session files, not data files.  Choosing a data file for the data wizard is still one click away (clicking the Data Wizard... button)

CCMAIL: 87465-done@bugs.kde.org


  M +1 -1      quickstartdialog.ui   1.3


--- kdeextragear-2/kst/kst/quickstartdialog.ui  #1.2:1.3
@@ -119,5 +119,5 @@
             </property>
             <property name="title">
-                <string>Open an existing file</string>
+                <string>Open an existing Kst session</string>
             </property>
             <grid>