[chirp_devel] Adding columns to channel list

[Finn Thain]

On Thu, 18 May 2023, Jacek Lipkowski via chirp_devel wrote:

> I know that i can add an extra RadioSettingGroup to a channel, but it's 
> only visible after right-clicking the channel. Now i can't expect the 
> user to right-click every one of 200 channels to change or even see 
> these settings.
> 

Jacek, you read my mind.

Three clicks are needed to get to an extra settings tab: 1. right click on 
memory, 2. click "properties" menu item, 3. click on the tab in the "edit 
details" window.

One solution: double click on the channel number (far left column). This 
would be enough clicking already, if we also make better use of screen 
real estate.

At the moment, the properties ("edit details") window is a small square in 
the middle of large region of unused screen space.

That window could be expanded vertically, and the lists of settings in the 
tabbed panels could be combined into one longer list, with some separators 
and vertical scrolling, instead of tabs.

I suspect that, for many radio types and screen sizes, this would be 
sufficient to expose all of the interesting settings immediately, with 
just a double click.