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Paddy caecc60c7b UI/UX pass: readability, feedback, safer actions, DRK branding

Items 1–12 of the interface review:

- Larger UI font (UI_FONT_SIZE) across widgets, menus, dialogs, Treeview rows.
- DRK-red header bar; window title shows entry count; runtime-drawn red-cross
  icon (also written to data/icon.png for the launcher).
- Status bar colour-coded by severity; transient messages auto-clear after 8 s,
  queue-count messages stay.
- Tab 1: more form spacing, digits-only PLZ, explicit "Auswahl entfernen" +
  Delete key for queue rows, confirm on "Warteschlange leeren", modal on
  duplicate save.
- Tab 2: raw lat/lon columns replaced by one "Karte" column (checkmark / red
  "fehlt"); ▲/▼ arrow on the active sort column; hint line always shows the
  saved-entry count.
- "Karte öffnen" with no coordinates shows a dialog, not just a status line.
- Window size/position remembered between sessions (data/window.json).

Verified by building and driving the window under Homebrew Python 3.12 / Tk 9;
non-GUI smoke tests still pass. Docs updated (changelog, overview, improvements,
data-model, setup, dev-notes).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-09-07 18:51:17 +02:00

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Changelog

Notable changes to the app. Newest first.

2026-09-07 — UI/UX pass

A round of usability improvements aimed at the non-technical user (see improvements.md).

Larger UI font (UI_FONT_SIZE = 11) applied to all default fonts, menus, dialogs and the Treeview (taller rows).
DRK-red header bar with the app name; window title shows the total count ("… · 142 Einsätze"); simple red-cross window icon drawn at runtime (also written to data/icon.png for the launcher).
Status bar is now colour-coded by severity (grey/green/orange/red), and transient messages auto-clear after 8 s back to a neutral state; queue-count messages stay put.
Tab 1: more spacing in the form; PLZ field accepts digits only; "+ Hinzufügen" is a solid button; explicit "Auswahl entfernen" button and Delete key for queue rows; "Warteschlange leeren" now asks for confirmation; duplicate save shows a modal (list + "trotzdem speichern?") instead of a transient hint.
Tab 2: the raw lat/lon columns are replaced by a single "Karte" column (✓ / red fehlt); active sort column shows a ▲/▼ arrow; the hint line always shows the saved-entry count.
"Karte öffnen" with no coordinates now shows a dialog, not just a status line.
Window size & position are remembered between sessions (data/window.json).

2026-09-07 — data safety, robustness, easier input

Addressed the top three findings from improvements.md.

Data safety (`DataStore`)

All writes (append / update / delete) now rebuild the full DataFrame and go through _save_csv: rotating backup to data/backups/ (startup + before every change, keep 20, skip if unchanged) then atomic write (tmp + fsync + os.replace).
orte.csv missing / empty (EmptyDataError) / unreadable now falls back to an empty table or the newest backup instead of crashing.

Geocoder robustness (`GeocoderWorker`, `geocode_city`)

Each queue item runs inside try/except; a failing lookup or callback logs a traceback and the worker keeps going (previously an unexpected error killed the thread and silently froze all further geocoding).
geocode_city raises GeocodingUnavailable when every query failed on a service/network error. After 3 in a row the app shows a one-time "Standortdienst nicht erreichbar" dialog; entries still save without coordinates.

Easier, safer input

Date fields (entry form + edit dialog) are now ttkbootstrap.DateEntry calendar pickers, validated/normalized to ISO by parse_date() (also accepts TT.MM.JJJJ). Invalid dates are rejected with a dialog.
Edit dialog has manual Breitengrad / Längengrad fields for fixing coordinates by hand.
Tab 2: rows without coordinates shown in red, "Nur ohne Koordinaten" filter, count in the hint line, right-click Koordinaten suchen.

Housekeeping

git init + .gitignore.
Rotating log file at data/app.log (_setup_logging).
Shared helpers filter_locations / split_city_plz / parse_coord replace duplicated combobox code.
Config constants: GEOCODE_REGIONS, MAP_DEFAULT_CENTER, MAP_DEFAULT_ZOOM, MAX_BACKUPS.
generate_map fits the view to the markers.

Verification

Non-GUI smoke tests (helpers, DataStore backup/atomic/recovery, geocoder resilience) pass. The GUI now can be built and driven on the dev Mac via a Homebrew Python with Tk 9 — see dev-notes.md.

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