[R-SIG-Mac] R mac gui improvements

[Simon Urbanek]

Thomas,

thanks for the suggestions.

On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:06 , Thomas Julou wrote:

> First of all, I would like to thank you for the great gui you  
> developped for R under mac. What a great change when it appeared!
>
> By now, a few improvement would make user life even easier and more  
> pleasant ;)
> Mainly regarding quartz graphic windows: having a toolbar with a few  
> features would not hurt.

I'm not a big fan of toolbars with "few" features since they take away  
space unnecessarily (some of the old tools in R.app are bad  
enough ;)), but that's a matter of taste ...


> As in TexShop for instance: hand, small magnifier, big magnifier,  
> zoom tool,

Potentially useful - but not really on my priority list. However,  
contributions are welcome.


> save and print…

We have menus and shortcuts for those already ...


> and why not tabbed graphic window.
>

 From a UI point of view it's a bit questionable how to do that  
properly (having more independent devices in one window), yet, again  
if someone finds it useful [s]he should figure that out. However, you  
are aware of the history accessible via <Cmd><Left>/<Right> I suppose?


> Here are my two cents… I have no idea about the doability, but I    
> guess that if you use mac PDFkit for display,

As the name suggests Quartz is implemented using Quartz, not PDF Kit.  
Quartz is more general and not limited to PDF.

Note that Quartz is a very modular infrastructure so you can even  
write a package that provides an enhanced Quartz on-screen window.  
Clearly if it was based on qdCococa it would be easy to fold it into R  
later. Also note that Quartz is part of R and not the GUI, so it will  
benefit all Mac users.

Cheers,
Simon


> these functions should
> be provided out of the box?! But I'm not sure quartz rely on PDFkit…
>
> Thank you in advance for your attention. Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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