Hello!
  From
my point of view it's the time to think (or at least to start
to think :-) about customization and preference
management in UDIG. I would like to see
unified structure of preferences pages combining by
let's say "categories".
  Consider
the "Preferences" dialog.
  Just
to outline what I
  mean:
  
  +Project
          -Map (default preferences for the map, such as default CRS
when new     map
is created)
          -Layer (default preferences for the layer, whatever)
          -…
  +Tools
          -Selection tool (different style settings - how selection
graphics is   rendered, whatever)
          -Editing
(here for example animation can be switched off/on in all             
editing tools, whatever)
                  
                  -Split tool
                  -Merge tool
                  -…
          
  +Renderers
          -WMS renderer
          -Shapefile renderer
          -…
  
  
  I
suggest to think out about structure and
define basic preferences
categories that should be described somewhere in documentation.
Developers will follow them to support unified
preferences framework.
  Vitali.
  
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