Just copying my last comment from the source thread... ------------ I can concur on the feeling of being lost but most students. What about a grass70 -b flag for "beginner" or something like this. That means we can work through the discovery straight "out of the box". It would be even easier to have a MSWin Icon using that option installed on the desktop directly, if we are looking at lowering the entry/discovery level. It could have a "beginner' infographic to direct new users to this one first.
+ What about creating a mechanism where the beginner version (as you point out Vaclav) be made always in the /tmp/random_name on opening GRASS, with say lat/long parameters. From Inside GRASS, one can launch the "welcome screen" and make a new Location/mapset, hook to it, or hook into an existing set. <- This will make the "starting use" of GRASS look like a common GIS, with the whole Location/project management (already there but not in one dialog) right available at any time in the software. On 22 January 2015 at 10:05, Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> To satisfy everybody, I suggest to provide a buttons with something like >> "Take me to LL", "Take me to default location" and "Take me to XY". What do >> you think about that? >> >> But the real improvement should be the messages which would guide you >> through the process. >> > > So, here is screenshot and diff for new layout of the window together the > description what the things are useful for. The descriptions can be easily > changed, they are wrapped texts, so they will work well with translations. > So, feel free to suggest different ones. We can also make them "gray" as > suggested earlier. > > I used GRASS Location and Location. I though that GRASS could help to > emphasize that it is something GRASS-related and few people were using > Location and Mapset with capital letter which could say that it is a > something like files format or spatial database name. I aimed to address > the things I considered confusing. I'm not sure about the GRASS GIS data > directory as I mentioned earlier. > > Now it is higher then the old one but with removal of the image it will be > smaller. If a small-enough image is used, it could be the same. I would > like to not include the image to have more space for the error messages > (currently one line between GISDBASE and Location boxes), so messages can > be longer and perhaps some what to do next tips can be shown as well. The > position of this text can/should be changed, now middle of the window > (usually these are at the bottom or at the top). However, without image it > might be actually a little boring. > > I reorganized the buttons to manage the (list of) Locations and (list of) > Mapsets, so now it looks like any other lists, e.g. in Simple Layer Manager > or in Cartographic Composer. In future we can add buttons, for example > unpack a zipped location or download sample datasets in case of Locations > and show existing maps button in case of Mapsets. > > A "Skip" button can be added next to Start button, once implemented. I > think that XY location in /tmp/grassdata would be appropriate. > > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073268.html > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073266.html > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- ----
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