2015-01-23 21:54 GMT+02:00 Markus Metz <markus.metz.gisw...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No, I am talking about a minimal welcome screen to replace the current > welcome screen. This screen appears (current behaviour) before GRASS > GIS is started. > > Markus M > If I got you right, your proposal is to replace: Launch GRASS -> click on location -> click on mapset -> click on Start with: Launch GRASS -> click on "change location" -> click on location -> click on "change mapset" -> click on mapset -> click on Start
If it is so, I vote with all of my four against. If you wan to make startup screen more easy, just 1) hide GISDBASE a bit (instead of showing it as a input field, display as a text with "change" button); 2) add "Import data" button that starts Location wizard but by "guessing" parameters based on selected file (with an option to change, of course). Having a "project set up" screen as a first screen while launching some program is not so uncommon in area of pro software. I don't see how users would benefit if they would be dropped in a some random location with most of menu items being not completely functional, "add raster/vector" showing empty lists etc. Even worse - there are plenty of ESRI Shapefiles without .prj and other datasets without SRS definitions - users would just start to do their work in XY locations till it will lead to furtherer problems (Why in ArcGIS is see those data together, but in GRASS I don't? - one of most common complaints of my students. Hint - messed up SRS definitions masked by "easy to use" functionality. How should area / distance be calculated in XY location for LL data?!?) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Maris. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
