Re: [Gnumed-devel] visual progress notes

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 11:56:15 schrieb Karsten Hilbert:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:46:49AM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > I seem to not comprehend how this works. I observer that there is a
> > button templates and a button file.
> > 
> > Pressing the button template did not invoke any action.
> 
> Because no template was yet selected in the phrasewheel
> *above* the two buttons.

That is correct. However one needs to know that this is the way it is supposed 
to be. The button should then maybe read Open (above) template.
Or if one hit Return after using the phrasewheel the action could be invoked 
as well. Maybe it already is.

> 
> > Only after I started
> > typing in the phrasewheel above did it invoke a dialog which opened the
> > image I had chosen.
> 
> Nope. Only after you 1) typed and selected a template AND 2)
> pressed [template] again.

That is correct.

> 
> > In the dialog I type gwenview for the program which did open the
> > image in gwenview.
> 
> Gwenview isn't suited to *editing* images particularly well :-)
> 
That is true.

> > Upon closing nothing changed in the user interface.
> 
> Sure, because you didn't edit the template. GNUmed decreed
> that there's no use saving an unmodified template to the EMR
> of the patient. Users will need to decide whether that's
> useful or not. Maybe GNUmed should ask what to do ?
> 
Are you sure about that ? That is true only for the template , correct ? that 
makes sense.

> > Chosing a file via the file dialog did bring up the file and display it
> > to the left once I had closed gwenview.
> 
> Yep, because if you chose it from the filesystem it likely
> is a one-time photograph of, say, a wound or rash which
> likely doesn't need editing - it can speak for itself.
> 
Understood.

> > I have been told before that the visual progress note is not directly
> > connected to the progress note to the left.
> 
> It is just as disconnected from the textual progress notes
> as these are from each other even within the same encounter.
> 
> > Would it make sense to integrate the whole visual progress note panel as
> > a tab in the notebook to the left ?
> 
> That would work, too, but it would disrupt the logical scope
> of the action buttons below. Which may not be a big deal if
> adjusted appropriately. One would lose the ability to view
> an image alongside a notelet, however.
> 
I guess the only reason why I am asking the the current window size which 
makes it a bit small and not exactly user friendly.

> It's the way it is ATM. I wanted to see what users thought
> of it.
> 
Sure. More comments will get through once 0.7 is released.
> There's always the draggable splitter between the notebook
> and the textuals.
> 
This one is easily overlooked and a PITA to grab.