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0013226ParaView(No Category)public2012-06-07 12:492012-10-29 17:04
Lawrence 
Utkarsh Ayachit 
normalminorhave not tried
closedfixed 
3.14.1 
3.98.0 
TBD
13226_hci_cleanup_menu_names
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0013226: HCI/Clean up menu items to include ... for modal items (fix attached); will benefit new users
eadline: Paraview's menu items inconsistently include "..."


Several menu items that lead to modal dialogs are missing the "..." The culprits are in...

Qt/ApplicationComponents/Resources/UI/ ui files
Qt/ApplicationComponents/pqParaViewMenuBuilders.cxx

Anything that can help Paraview bea bit more userfriendly to new users is a good thing. Attached are fixed versions of the ui files and cxx file-

zip -r ui_menuitems_ellipse.zip ui_menuitems_ellipse/
  adding: ui_menuitems_ellipse/ (stored 0%)
  adding: ui_menuitems_ellipse/pqEditMenuBuilder.ui (deflated 86%)
  adding: ui_menuitems_ellipse/pqFileMenuBuilder.ui (deflated 86%)
  adding: ui_menuitems_ellipse/pqMainControlsToolbar.ui (deflated 83%)
  adding: ui_menuitems_ellipse/pqParaViewMenuBuilders.cxx (deflated 77%)
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zip ui_menuitems_ellipse.zip (6,666) 2012-06-07 12:49
https://www.vtk.org/Bug/file/9207/ui_menuitems_ellipse.zip
Issue History
2012-06-07 12:49LawrenceNew Issue
2012-06-07 12:49LawrenceFile Added: ui_menuitems_ellipse.zip
2012-06-20 11:07Utkarsh AyachitTopic Name => 13226_hci_cleanup_menu_names
2012-06-20 11:07Utkarsh AyachitNote Added: 0028708
2012-06-20 11:07Utkarsh AyachitStatusbacklog => gatekeeper review
2012-06-20 11:07Utkarsh AyachitFixed in Version => git-next
2012-06-20 11:07Utkarsh AyachitResolutionopen => fixed
2012-06-20 11:07Utkarsh AyachitAssigned To => Utkarsh Ayachit
2012-06-20 11:22Utkarsh AyachitNote Added: 0028710
2012-06-29 14:11Utkarsh AyachitFixed in Versiongit-next => git-master
2012-06-29 14:12Utkarsh AyachitStatusgatekeeper review => customer review
2012-06-29 14:12Utkarsh AyachitNote Added: 0028729
2012-07-19 15:35Alan ScottNote Added: 0028866
2012-07-19 15:35Alan ScottStatuscustomer review => closed
2012-10-29 17:04Utkarsh AyachitFixed in Versiongit-master => 3.98.0

Notes
(0028708)
Utkarsh Ayachit   
2012-06-20 11:07   
commit 0626ad11a59d586694ec0e9038d4b5e91f11dc0e
Author: Lawrence Angrave <angrave@illinois.edu>
Date: Wed Jun 20 11:05:58 2012 -0400

    Updating menus to consistently use "...".
    
    Paraview's menu items inconsistently include "...". Several menu items that lead
    to modal dialogs are missing the "...". This contributed patch fixes it.
(0028710)
Utkarsh Ayachit   
2012-06-20 11:22   
Thanks for the patch, btw, much appreciated :).
(0028729)
Utkarsh Ayachit   
2012-06-29 14:12   
merged in master (if applicable)
(0028866)
Alan Scott   
2012-07-19 15:35   
Looks good. I checked Linux, local server, Master.