Kexi/Junior Jobs/Small report improvements

Status: UNASSIGNED, Target: 2.8/2.9, Difficulty: EASY

Proposed and mentored by Jstaniek (talk) 08:09, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

The Goal

Small (usability) improvements in Kexi Reports.

The Tasks

Pick one task from this list. Mark it with a [assigned to YOURNAME] tag. Create a bugs.kde.org entry only for non-trivial improvements. See Contributing a Patch.

1. [2.9] Add visible "value" property to all report elements. If element has proper data source assignment, the value is ignored but otherwise it's displayed as "static" data. Example: value of boolean type for the check box
2. [2.9] improve the placeholders for elements in design mode: translate them too. ": field" is not quite good. Consult for jstaniek for the ultimate design.
3. [2.8] when inserting lines by single click, the object is too small.
4. [2.9] Rename visible caption of "Check" to "Check Box", "Web" to "Web Page"
5. [2.9] Improve appearance of report check box element of style "Dot", it currently looks like a radio button, what is misleading: [1]
6. [2.9] Improve appearance of check box in tabular view when the value is NULL and required == false: [2] -- the "?" mark is misplaced a bit
7. [2.9] Use the dedicated data source combo box widget from forms 'data source' tab [3] in reports. The current data source combo in reports 'data source' tab has broken sorting and looks inferior [4] to what form offers. Also it does not offer keyboard access or completion.
8. [2.9] Change label for the data source combo in report designer's 'data source' tab from the hacky "Internal Source" to "Report's data source:" (making it similar to what forms shows).
9. [2.9] Improve HIG compliance. Change label related to the data source combo in form designer's 'data source' tab from "Form's data source" to "Form's data source:". Also in report designer's 'data source' tab change "Source Type:" to "Source Type:" and "External Source:" to "External source:".