UI for First Chimera 2 "Releases"

Required

• Late summer
  • Go up and down selection hierarchy
  • Mouse modes
    • Button strip
    • Hot keys
  • Save image dialog
  • Open file dialog
  • Save/restore sessions
  • Command history
• December
  • Simple Selection/Action menus
  • Actions
    • Hide/show
    • Color
    • Surface
    • Style
      • atom
    • Delete
  • Selections
    • By model/chain
    • By structure (ions, ligand, secondary structure, etc.)
    • Operations (clear, invert all models, invert selected models, select all)
  • Rapid Access (file history and in particular)
  • Hierarchical model panel
    • Active/shown checkboxes
    • Action buttons
  • Full side view (clipping planes)

Highly desirable

• Actions
  • Style
    • ribbon
    • surface
  • Label
• Selections
  • By residue type or category/atom element
  • By chemistry (functional groups, atom types, residue properties)
• Appearance (transparency and material)
• Export in different formats (PDB, volume format, graphics format, etc)
• Improved toolshed interface

Would be nice

• Stereo
• RFE / bug report dialogs
• Chimera 1 -> 2 session conversion