It's always a question of training and practice to take benefit from a tool or software. There are differences in concept and solutions between ArcView / ArcGIS and QGIS. For me, QGIS is really great particularly due to the integration of GRASS and SAGA e.g. But of course, it's necessary to dive deeper into this all to take benefit from. For people who can't dive deeper, it might be better to choose or create a more simple viewer with limited functionality for a map output / print output. And there your proposed button seems appropriate for me. It's really difficult to have a program sophisticated and simple at the same time and in the same instance. Should be possible to simplify the QGIS GUI (a QGISimple fork ?) or this has been already achieved by somebody. Depends always on demands and a volunteer to complete it.
By the way: if somebody really misses the old ArcView (3), he could give gvSIG a try. gvSIG is an open source project as well, programmed in Java and rather similar to ArcView 3. Found it much easier and more comfortable to create maps with QGIS, but that might be a question of tastes. Warm regards, Christine -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/script-to-simplify-Set-to-Map-Canvas-Extent-tp5320512p5320564.html Sent from the QGIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user