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[idvdevelopers] Proposed change to menu items in Displays tab of Dashboard

Hello IDV Developers -
This email is in regards to redundant Properties menu items in the Displays tab of the Dashboard for display types that display in this tab (through the View and Edit menus).
For example, here are displays where you can get to the same properties through both View and Edit: 

 * Hovmoller, Vertical Cross Sections, Time/Height, Data Transect
 * For example, under Edit>Properties for Hovmoller, there is a
   'Hovmoller View' tab.  This same tab is also under the Edit menu.
Here is the display where you can get to the Displays properties through only Edit: 

 * Skew-T
Here are displays where you can get to the Displays properties through only View: 

 * Data Probe/Time Series, Vertical Profile
For consistency purposes, we are proposing that the Edit>Properties for the Displays properties should be removed, and the Displays properties should only be under View. Here are our reasons for this change: 

 * There are already a lot of menu items in the Displays tab, so this
   would help clean things up a bit
 * Some display types (Data Probe/Time Series and Vertical Profile) can
   only have properties under View since you can have multiple
   charts/profiles in the same Displays tab.  If under Edit, there
   would only be one properties window to control all of the
   charts/profiles.  Under View, the properties of each chart/profile
   can be accessed independently of each other. Therefore, having all
   Displays properties controlled through View would help things as far
   as consistency.
 * We have had a user tell us that they expect the Edit menu in the
   Displays to only control the Main Display, as it does for other
   display types that don't end up in the Displays tab (e.g. contour
   plan view displays).
We wanted to pass this around to the IDV developers to see if others agree with our proposed approach to this. Do you agree that removing the redundant Properties menus is a good thing, or do you like having the ability to do the same thing in multiple places? 

Thanks!
Bob Carp
McIDAS User Services
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