Taking into account usage patter of a person who knows (a bit) GRASS,
I would say that this could be a good solution - access to
functionality should be provided based on usage frequency.
To make this solution perfect, it would be necessary to add some
"black magic" that launches some "configuratio
o parallel/alternative
startups...
Cheers
Stefan
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Hi,
I have taken liberty to upload #4 in r64447 in order to get something
changed for RC2 which is overdue (the image part of the screen should
probably be filled with a white background).
Markus
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi Vaclav,
>
> 2015-02-02 20:01 GMT+01:00 Vaclav Petras :
> > More improvements for startup window in r64405.
>
> I tested improvements on Windows, it looks better, thanks. There are
> still margins too wide [1], but it's just minor comment.
>
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Markus Metz
wrote:
...
>
> A prototype for a minimal welcome screen actually exists in Settings
> -> GRASS working environment -> Change location and mapset.
Could anyone make this accessible at startup time with a flag? Then we
could try out how it satisfies the
Hi Vaclav,
2015-02-02 20:01 GMT+01:00 Vaclav Petras :
> More improvements for startup window in r64405.
I tested improvements on Windows, it looks better, thanks. There are
still margins too wide [1], but it's just minor comment.
Martin
[1] http://geo1.fsv.cvut.cz/landa/grass71-1.png
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>**
>1) Run GRASS launch script => GUI opens directly
>
>2) Have entries in the 'File'-Menu to
>
>- 'Open existing location'
>- 'Create new location'
>- 'Creat new mapset'
>- 'Manage locations and mapsets' (could also replace the two last
> entries)
>
>3) Whe
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Moritz Lennert
wrote:
> On 03/02/15 09:04, Markus Metz wrote:
>>
>> We can go on forever with this "I prefer this" and "But I prefer
>> that". Instead I would propose a poll with GRASS users and let them
>> decide.
>
>
> I actually don't think we need to "decide". W
On 03.02.2015 09:53, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:
[..]
1) I was just wondering, every module has a manual, the
startup-screen does not. What about having a e.g. the “Location and
Mapsets” wiki page as a manual behind e.g. a (not too flashy)
question-mark-button on the on the welome screen.
On 03/02/15 09:04, Markus Metz wrote:
We can go on forever with this "I prefer this" and "But I prefer
that". Instead I would propose a poll with GRASS users and let them
decide.
I actually don't think we need to "decide". Why not just propose
different startup options and users can chose amon
On 03/02/15 04:26, Yann Chemin wrote:
It may sound out of place, but would it be possible to call this dialog
anytime during a grass session to manage where you want to work through
a known, unified interface?
Markus suggested something like this during our discussions at FOSDEM.
Here's a summ
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>> > For newcomers/no rc file: how about creating a new GRASS GIS database
>> > in $HOME,
>>
>> +1
>>
>> > in there a new location with EPSG:4326 (latlong wgs84), the
>> > empty PERMA
Dear all,
Following this relatively long thread one can observe that some arguments and
proposals are being repeated, while other aspects receive probably less
attention than they deserve.
Therefor Anna`s suggestion below seems quite reasonable, in order to e.g.
identify differences between sol
It may sound out of place, but would it be possible to call this dialog
anytime during a grass session to manage where you want to work through a
known, unified interface?
On Feb 3, 2015 4:42 AM, "Vaclav Petras" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Michael Barton
> wrote:
>
>> I think tha
I think that they are equally as informative and the one on the left takes up
less space. Just my opinion.
Michael
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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Markus Metz
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras
>> wrote:
>> >> More improvements for startup window in r64405.
>>
>> Pleas
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Michael Barton
> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately the screenshots are too low resolution for me to read them
>> here. So I might miss something that is on the screenshot.
>
>
> It's just about layout, don't worry
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Michael Barton
wrote:
> Unfortunately the screenshots are too low resolution for me to read them
> here. So I might miss something that is on the screenshot.
It's just about layout, don't worry about text. I can of course send full
size if somebody wants.
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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Markus Metz
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras
> wrote:
> >> More improvements for startup window in r64405.
>
> Please let's not welcome a (new) user with a warning... looks scary.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Markus Metz
wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras
> wrote:
> > More improvements for startup window in r64405.
> >
> > Most notably you don't get error message when starting GRASS for the
> first
> > time without a rc file. After clicking OK, you
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On Feb 2, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Vaclav Petras
mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Michael Barton
mailto:michael.bar...@asu.edu>> wrote:
To make this more compact, there is still extraneous information not needed
below the location a
(now back from https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ -
digging through the emails)
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Markus Metz
wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
>> More improvements for startup window in r64405.
Please let's not welcome a (new) user with
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Michael Barton
wrote:
> To make this more compact, there is still extraneous information not
> needed below the location and mapset windows.
I don't think we have a consensus of what is the information needed.
Shortest is no info but that's not ideal neither. Per
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
> More improvements for startup window in r64405.
>
> Most notably you don't get error message when starting GRASS for the first
> time without a rc file. After clicking OK, you would get a browse window.
> Now you just get a warning text in the
To make this more compact, there is still extraneous information not needed
below the location and mapset windows. Also, error messages should be in popup
error windows, not displayed on the main dialog.
Michael
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More improvements for startup window in r64405.
Most notably you don't get error message when starting GRASS for the first
time without a rc file. After clicking OK, you would get a browse window.
Now you just get a warning text in the middle of the window and it is up to
you to read it and press
Hi,
2015-01-28 19:59 GMT+01:00 Vaclav Petras :
> Done in r64345.
btw, on Windows the welcome screen is now somehow bigger, location
desc is missing and mapset desc is wrapped too much, see [1].
Martin
[1] http://geo1.fsv.cvut.cz/landa/grass71.png
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Yann Chemin:
Continuing the crazy thoughts,
You could have FFT/wavelet parameters per column of a raster image
hard-coded to create an image on request (that I could do I think).
Markus Neteler wrote:
... r.surf.fractal does this... but:
About a
vector, well a set of polygon arcs pairs ca
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Yann Chemin wrote:
> Continuing the crazy thoughts,
> You could have FFT/wavelet parameters per column of a raster image
> hard-coded to create an image on request (that I could do I think).
... r.surf.fractal does this... but:
> About a
> vector, well a set of p
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Sent: 29. januar 2015 18:13
To: Moritz Lennert
Cc: Michael Barton; GRASS developers grass-developers
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers
On 29.
This is sort of beginning to sound like what we already have. That is, we have
a button on the web site that downloads a demo data set that is already
organized in a location and mapset.
Michael
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor o
On 30.01.2015 14:35, Yann Chemin wrote:
Continuing the crazy thoughts,
You could have FFT/wavelet parameters per column of a raster image
hard-coded to create an image on request (that I could do I think).
About a
vector, well a set of polygon arcs pairs can easily be stored in code
and
(i su
Continuing the crazy thoughts,
You could have FFT/wavelet parameters per column of a raster image
hard-coded to create an image on request (that I could do I think). About a
vector, well a set of polygon arcs pairs can easily be stored in code and
(i suppose) imported on the fly as a vector.
On 30
Maybe a crazy idea, but... if access to internet isn't an option,
maybe the "button" can create a Location and Mapset(s), and let a script
create some artificial vector and raster maps? So a user can still play
along with unreal data.
Nikos
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Yann Chemin writes:
> +1 for a button, but I am not sure sure a data download is that
> necessary...
I think a download button would be useful as the demo location should be
in the home directory so that the user can play with it.
The disadvantage would be that the user has to be online for thi
On 30/01/15 11:01, Yann Chemin wrote:
+1 for a button, but I am not sure sure a data download is that
necessary...
The button might just be a script creating a (several?) empty
Location(s?) in a directory that the user can choose.
I think the idea was to have a location with some data already i
+1 for a button, but I am not sure sure a data download is that
necessary...
The button might just be a script creating a (several?) empty Location(s?)
in a directory that the user can choose.
On 30 January 2015 at 15:20, Moritz Lennert
wrote:
> On 29/01/15 17:43, Vaclav Petras wrote:
>
>> On
On 29/01/15 17:43, Vaclav Petras wrote:
On the MS Windows installer takes care of that by copying demo Location
to newly created grassdata dir in Documents and creating the rc file. Is
this enough? If not why? And do we want to do something similar for
cases when installation is not done by GRASS
+1 Nice !
On 29 January 2015 at 19:15, Vincent Bain wrote:
> Here I put the updated banner:
> http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Identity#Proposals_2
>
> attached is the jpg label.
>
> Le jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 14:12 +0100, Vincent Bain a écrit :
> > Le jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 18:19 +0530, Yann Ch
On 29.01.2015 18:49, Moritz Lennert wrote:
### Mapset
"A Mapset contains GIS data. Every Location automatically has one
Mapset
named PERMANENT that also contains projection information for the
Location."
Maybe add a little about use of mapsets:
"A Mapset is a subdirectory of a location and
On 29/01/15 16:53, Vaclav Petras wrote:
On the topic of descriptions. I left there what I had there the first
time because I had no time to revise it yesterday.
Location = project was there for a long time already but I'm not saying
that it is good. However, there should be some suggestions, how
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Nikos Alexandris
wrote:
> 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 man
Thanks Vaclav
Michael
C. Michael Barton
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Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University
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On the topic of descriptions. I left there what I had there the first time
because I had no time to revise it yesterday.
Location = project was there for a long time already but I'm not saying
that it is good. However, there should be some suggestions, how to use
GISDBASE, Location and Mapset. Oth
Nice!
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), 480-965-8130/727-97
Here I put the updated banner:
http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Identity#Proposals_2
attached is the jpg label.
Le jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 14:12 +0100, Vincent Bain a écrit :
> Le jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 18:19 +0530, Yann Chemin a écrit :
> > I wonder if Vincent could make it with "GRASS GIS" in F
Le jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 18:19 +0530, Yann Chemin a écrit :
> I wonder if Vincent could make it with "GRASS GIS" in Fira Sans as in
> the splash screen?
Yes, in a while.
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Could we have a proposed new banner in trunk too.
It really helps having it on your computer...
Maybe the smallest one makes sense for all screen sizes
http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner3.jpg
I wonder if Vincent could make it with "GRASS GIS" in Fira Sans as in the
splas
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 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.
Attached the draft version from trunk (updated 2hs ago). Obviously yet
with the old
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
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Vaclav Petras 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
g
On Jan 29, 2015 9:47 AM, "Moritz Lennert"
wrote:
>
> On 28/01/15 19:59, Vaclav Petras wrote:
...
> 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 stron
On 28/01/15 19:59, Vaclav Petras wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Vaclav Petras mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Vaclav Petras mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
To satisfy everybody, I suggest to provide a buttons with
somet
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-01-28 19:59 GMT+01:00 Vaclav Petras :
>
>> Done in r64345.
Good, now we have a better discussion base.
>> Now the change of minimal height is needed to actually make it work on small
>> screens.
>
> thanks. I would vote to make
Hi,
2015-01-28 19:59 GMT+01:00 Vaclav Petras :
> Done in r64345.
>
> Now the change of minimal height is needed to actually make it work on small
> screens.
thanks. I would vote to make description text gray. Martin
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Vaclav Petras
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Vaclav Petras
> 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?
2015-01-23 21:54 GMT+02:00 Markus Metz :
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Margherita Di Leo 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
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Markus Metz
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> That is why I suggested a minimal (minimal information content)
>> welcome screen with one OK button and one change button. The OK button
>> should be prominently pla
Yann Chemin wrote:
> hmm that would be cool !
> running r(v).in.* without GISDBASE or Location or mapset could
trigger a
> wizard to set them up...
Markus Metz:
This is the current location wizard.
The original topic was import and on-the-fly reprojection without
the
need to create a ne
On 23 January 2015 at 22:18, Anna Petrášová wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Margherita Di Leo
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Markus Metz <
>> markus.metz.gisw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> That is why I suggested a minimal (minimal information content)
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Margherita Di Leo
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Markus Metz <
> markus.metz.gisw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> That is why I suggested a minimal (minimal information content)
>> welcome screen with one OK button and one change button. The OK bu
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Markus Metz
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Yann Chemin wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> > hmm that would be cool !
> > running r(v).in.* without GISDBASE or Location or mapset could trigger a
> > wizard to set them up...
>
> This is the current location wizard.
>
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Markus Metz
wrote:
>
> That is why I suggested a minimal (minimal information content)
> welcome screen with one OK button and one change button. The OK button
> should be prominently placed, the user must immediately see that all
> is needed to get started i
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Yann Chemin wrote:
>
>
> On 23 January 2015 at 16:49, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>
>> Yann Chemin writes:
>>
>> > On 23 January 2015 at 15:46, Martin Landa
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> 2015-01-23 9:20 GMT+01:00 Markus Neteler :
>> >> > my motivation to disc
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2015 9:26 AM, "Paulo van Breugel" wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
>>> potential new users try to launch
On 23 January 2015 at 16:49, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Yann Chemin writes:
>
> > On 23 January 2015 at 15:46, Martin Landa
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> 2015-01-23 9:20 GMT+01:00 Markus Neteler :
> >> > my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
> >> > potential new use
Yann Chemin writes:
> On 23 January 2015 at 15:46, Martin Landa wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2015-01-23 9:20 GMT+01:00 Markus Neteler :
>> > my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
>> > potential new users try to launch GRASS, do not get past that screen and
>> > walk away
On 23 January 2015 at 15:46, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-01-23 9:20 GMT+01:00 Markus Neteler :
> > my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
> > potential new users try to launch GRASS, do not get past that screen and
> > walk away ("too difficult"). Yes, and the
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Martin Landa
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-01-23 9:20 GMT+01:00 Markus Neteler :
> > my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
> > potential new users try to launch GRASS, do not get past that screen and
> > walk away ("too difficult"). Yes, an
Hi,
2015-01-23 9:20 GMT+01:00 Markus Neteler :
> my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
> potential new users try to launch GRASS, do not get past that screen and
> walk away ("too difficult"). Yes, and they will likely not read the manual
> but just take another GIS.
On Jan 23, 2015 9:26 AM, "Paulo van Breugel" wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
potential new users try to launch GRASS, do not get past that screen and
walk away ("too difficult"). Y
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
> potential new users try to launch GRASS, do not get past that screen and
> walk away ("too difficult"). Yes, and they will likely not read the manual
> but just
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Michael Barton
wrote:
> Hi Vaclav,
>
> To be clear, I agree with you that GRASS should not start with a wizard
> and had did not intend anyone to think that.
>
> The ‘step 1, step 2, step 3’ was simply to put this as text on the
> startup dialog, to help users
Hi,
my motivation to discuss the current welcome screen is that too many
potential new users try to launch GRASS, do not get past that screen and
walk away ("too difficult"). Yes, and they will likely not read the manual
but just take another GIS.
This is a multiple times reported fact.
Let's sol
On 23 January 2015 at 08:34, Maris Nartiss wrote:
>
> Please, let's not try to compete with QGIS in ease of use, as we will
> lose due to lack of manpower and different goals (quality and power
> over ease of use). Spatial data is hard. High quality analysis is
> hard. Let's keep GRASS profession
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Maris Nartiss wrote:
> This thread has exposed a problem with GRASS GIS - lack of clear
> vision (target auditory, "market niche").
>
Perhaps rather different visions... comes with being open source with an
active and open community
>
> I agree with Anna - start
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Maris Nartiss wrote:
> This thread has exposed a problem with GRASS GIS - lack of clear
> vision (target auditory, "market niche").
>
Perhaps rather different visions... comes with being open source with an
active and open community
>
> I agree with Anna - start
This thread has exposed a problem with GRASS GIS - lack of clear
vision (target auditory, "market niche").
I agree with Anna - startup screen is a problem only on the first time
and it goes away with training. We must keep in mind that GRASS is
more often launched not for the first time than for t
On Jan 22, 2015, at 11:11 PM, Yann Chemin
mailto:yche...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi MIchael,
Are we going to yet another branch from the original topic :-)
Just clarifying what I said earlier on this particular topic. Why making the
start of GRASS easier is not easy.
I believe the fundamental c
Hi MIchael,
Are we going to yet another branch from the original topic :-)
I believe the fundamental change you speak about is worth discussing for
GRASS 8.
I also believe that the on-the-fly reprojection on import is a feature we
all agree is (very) needed (GRASS 8).
Finally, I believe that Vac
Hi Vaclav,
To be clear, I agree with you that GRASS should not start with a wizard and had
did not intend anyone to think that.
The ‘step 1, step 2, step 3’ was simply to put this as text on the startup
dialog, to help users know which step to do in what order.
The more radical suggestion that
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Michael Barton
wrote:
> For this release, we need to focus on just tweaking the current startup
> screen and doing better graphics for the splash. The other topic is a much
> bigger issue.
>
Not everybody considers my suggestion as useful-enough change and there
I fully support Anna here.
Again, in addition
-the startup screen - as it is now - gives a good overview over
existing data in the GRASSS DB, that is valuable information for me
-probably hiding the path to the GISDBASE (once that is defined in the
user profile) behind a button
For this release, we need to focus on just tweaking the current startup screen
and doing better graphics for the splash. The other topic is a much bigger
issue.
The reasons that GRASS just can’t open and then load a file like a word
processor are multiple and related. Foremost is the underlying
Hi,
2015-01-22 16:54 GMT+01:00 Anna Petrášová :
>> I would say that it's topic for 7.1 or partially for 7.0.1. Release
>> branch is currently in hard freeze, so only bug fixes should go there.
>
>
> Right. But we still should decide on the graphics (different thread).
yes, it make sense to me. M
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Martin Landa
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-01-22 16:27 GMT+01:00 Anna Petrášová :
> > Any opinion on what can we do for this release?
>
> I would say that it's topic for 7.1 or partially for 7.0.1. Release
> branch is currently in hard freeze, so only bug fixes should go
Hi,
2015-01-22 16:27 GMT+01:00 Anna Petrášová :
> Any opinion on what can we do for this release?
I would say that it's topic for 7.1 or partially for 7.0.1. Release
branch is currently in hard freeze, so only bug fixes should go there.
Martin
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"If we would find a way to automatically reproject data during import,
that would save a lot of work and explanation and it's useful not just for
beginners."
Not only beginners, I work -always- with mixed data, I spend an enourmous
amount of time juggling with creating adhoc temporary locations o
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Martin Landa
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-01-22 9:48 GMT+01:00 Markus Metz :
> > A suggestion for a compromise:
> >
> > Have a minimal welcome screen that says something like
> > "Starting GRASS GIS in location X, mapset Y"
> > nothing else, no list of all the available
+1 even better if we can test this on svn any time soon, it is often more
practical to try...
On 22 January 2015 at 20:11, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-01-22 9:48 GMT+01:00 Markus Metz :
> > A suggestion for a compromise:
> >
> > Have a minimal welcome screen that says something like
> > "
Hi,
2015-01-22 9:48 GMT+01:00 Markus Metz :
> A suggestion for a compromise:
>
> Have a minimal welcome screen that says something like
> "Starting GRASS GIS in location X, mapset Y"
> nothing else, no list of all the available locations and mapsets
>
> Only two buttons: OK, Change
> Make OK the d
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Nikos Alexandris
wrote:
> On 22.01.2015 10:32, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
>
> > > I find the fact that GRASS does not provide a default
>>> > > projection system, but forces the user to think about projection
>>> from the
>>> > > start, one of its strengths, both f
On 22.01.2015 10:41, Rainer M Krug wrote:
Nikos Alexandris writes:
On 22.01.2015 09:51, Yann Chemin wrote:
http://docs.qgis.org/2.2/ko/docs/training_manual/grass/grass_setup.html
http://docs.qgis.org/2.2/ko/_images/grass_folder.png
Spanish text
https://ecoslackware.wordpress.com/tag/grass-
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
...
> I understand that for some users GRASS looks strange at first sight, because
> I'm aware that nearly nobody reads the manual *before* trying to start a new
> software.
Yes, confirmed...
> Because humans work like this, at first the
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Moritz Lennert
>> wrote:
>> > On 21/01/15 19:35, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> >> In my opinion we should not have the location selection dialog at all.
>> >> Revolution!
>> >>
>> >> We should start GRASS
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Markus Metz writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Moritz Lennert
wrote:
> On 21/01/15 1
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Markus Metz
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Vaclav Petras
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Markus Neteler
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Moritz Lennert
> >> wrote:
> >> > On 21/01/15 19:35, Markus Neteler wro
Markus Metz writes:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Moritz Lennert
>>> wrote:
>>> > On 21/01/15 19:35, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>> >> In my opinion we should not have
Markus Metz wrote:
A suggestion for a compromise:
Have a minimal welcome screen that says something like
"Starting GRASS GIS in location X, mapset Y"
nothing else, no list of all the available locations and mapsets
Only two buttons: OK, Change
Make OK the default, Change will bring up the curr
On 22.01.2015 10:32, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
> > I find the fact that GRASS does not provide a default
> > projection system, but forces the user to think about projection
from the
> > start, one of its strengths, both for work and for teaching.
>> On of it strenghts, yes. But I have bee
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