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Bug 255998 - Unify creation of a project from binary
Summary: Unify creation of a project from binary
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: cnd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Project (show other bugs)
Version: 8.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: issues@cnd
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Reported: 2015-10-18 12:38 UTC by Vladimir Kvashin
Modified: 2016-06-16 18:21 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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From main menu or toolabar (49.66 KB, image/png)
2015-10-18 15:28 UTC, Vladimir Kvashin 		Details
From context menu or via drag & drop (30.77 KB, image/png)
2015-10-18 15:29 UTC, Vladimir Kvashin 		Details
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Description Vladimir Kvashin 2015-10-18 12:38:13 UTC 
Right now there are several ways of creating a project from binary. These ways can be broken into 2 groups:

1-st group is: 
- File tool bar, 
- Remote tool bar, 
- File > New Project, 
- File > New Remote project. 

2-nd group is:
- drag & drop
- "Create Project" menu item in Favorites context menu

The UIs in these groups are totally different (I'll attach both screen shots below). The functionality is somewhat different as well.

From end user point of view there is no reasonable explanation for that.

These two UIs should be unified.
Comment 1 Vladimir Kvashin 2015-10-18 15:28:52 UTC 
Created attachment 156780 [details]
From main menu or toolabar
Comment 2 Vladimir Kvashin 2015-10-18 15:29:50 UTC 
Created attachment 156781 [details]
From context menu or via drag & drop
Comment 3 Alexander Simon 2016-06-15 16:11:03 UTC 
There is a difference between two groups:
- 1 is a wizard with several steps
- 2 is a dialog
Dialog used to "open" binary file (by d&d or by command line).
It would be strange if "open" ends up with wizard.
So I do not see reason to make UI unified.

I remember example of attempt of unified design:
- remove new host wizard from options dialog because it is available in several other places (by the way it was HIE suggestion).
User file a severe bug "return host setup in options dialog".

So do not unify without big reason.
Comment 4 Alexander Simon 2016-06-16 18:21:28 UTC 
I'd rather propose to replace dialogues with "project less".