Thanks for the thoughtful review and summary Carlos. Michael
On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:02 AM, grass-dev-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:01:51 -0300 From: Carlos Grohmann <carlos.grohm...@gmail.com> Subject: [GRASS-dev] some impressions on the wx interface To: grass-dev <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org> Message-ID: <bd07447b0909110801x5987a7e0jea45d6441253e...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Dear devs, Recently we had a workshop on SAGA+GRASS+R at the Geomorphometry2009 conference (www.geomorphometry.org). Before the workshop I was using the old tcl/tk interface (pretty much because of laziness, I'm used to it), but during the workshop most students were using Windows, so the WX interface was the default. Besides some bugs with the Windows version of GRASS, it went well. Some of the issues I observed during the workshop follow, so we can discuss ways to improve GRASS. One thing is that the WX interface doesn't open a terminal (at least in Windows), so if one is thinking about running GRASS+R, with GRASS on top of R, there is no way. Or is there? I noticed that the students were using most the "load map layers into workspace" icon, instead of "add raster" or "add vector". I don't know if this is because "load maps" is more to the left of the toolbar, and if you read from left to right, you see it before the others. I think that it would be better if the three "workspace" icons were at the far right of the toolbar. Also I would put the "add raster" and "add vector" icons with a different image, to highlight them from the others. In the Map Display, the "overlay" icon doesn't really mean much, I think that a different image would help, or even three buttons, one for legend, one for north arrow and on for text. In GIS manager, it looks to me that the "maps for each display" and "command output" are tabs, right? using a wx.notebook? in this case, I have to say that they don't look like tabs, and this always got me a little confused. If they had a real tab-like appearance, it would be better to understand the way the GUI works, because anyone that's new to the interface would know that there are two tabs with different contents. Also it would be very nice if instead of "maps for each display", we had "maps for display 1", "maps for display 2", etc. Also, using the mouse scroll wheel to navigate between tabs, IMO, is a must-have. That includes all tabs, the display tabs in gism and the options tabs in the commands dialogs. I also noticed that one can "close" tabs in the command dialog. why? the arrows to scroll to tabs that may not be visible is OK (although I would prefer to have all the tabs shown, even if that meant two rows of tabs), but closing tabs shouldn't be an option. Maybe we can save some space using regular "square" tabs instead of the tabs with that triangular ending. The dialog name for r.shaded.relief is "raded.relief". Didn't check other dialogs. And I noticed that I can't change the HTML browser (Ubuntu 9.04, latest GRASS SVN). It always call Konqueror. I tried changing GRASS_HTML_BROWSER to firefox or chromium-browser, but unsuccessfully. that's it for now. I'll use only the WX interface now, so I might come back with more feedback soon. cheers Carlos
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