Is there a place to see a screen shot of what is proposed? I suggested some wording changes awhile back but I don't know if they are incorporated or not.
Michael ____________________ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science Arizona State University voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC) fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:46 AM, Moritz Lennert <mlenn...@club.worldonline.be> > wrote: > > On 28/01/15 19:59, Vaclav Petras wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@gmail.com >> <mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@gmail.com >> <mailto: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. >> >> >> Done in r64345. >> >> Now the change of minimal height is needed to actually make it work on >> small screens. >> >> Please, read the previous message and commit message for a discussion >> and description. > > Generally, I like what I see, but I also have to admit that personally, and > apparently contrary to many others, I do not really see as much need to > change much in the GRASS startup. > > I just have two reactions: > > "Location represents a project." > > I'm not sure I like this restriction to location=project. For my part I often > use location=projection and mapset=project, but this depends. I'm afraid that > such a semantic limitation in the startup screen will strongly influence > users to go into just one direction... > > On 22/01/15 05:29, Vaclav Petras wrote:> A "Skip" button can be added next to > Start button, once implemented. I > > think that XY location in /tmp/grassdata would be appropriate. > > I'm very strongly opposed to this idea. You can be sure that many people will > abuse this horribly without knowing what they are doing. In my eyes, GRASS > should continue to impose a choice of projection system before working with > data. > > If we want to give people the opportunity to test GRASS, I prefer the option > of a button that downloads and unpacks a very light demo location. > > Moritz > _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
