Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-21 Thread Paolo Cavallini
On 11/17/2011 08:48 PM, Martin Dobias wrote: Subscription to the mailing list is a two-step process, so instead of directly subscribing the user to the list I think we should prefer to point him/her to the list info page to do the subscription manually:

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi I think I already mentioned I actually did the work for this before as part of a 'first run' wizard (which could also be launched from a menu I guess). Actually it just did the steop of adding the user to the users map, but the others can be accommodated in the same way I think. I am

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2011/11/17 Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com: Hi I think I already mentioned I actually did the work for this before as part of a 'first run' wizard (which could also be launched from a menu I guess). Actually it just did the steop of adding the user to the users map, but the others can be

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: Hi 8-snip-- The user map page needs to have a separate view made just for the wizard which excludes all the navigation stuff  (maybe Alessandro can help with that?) so that

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi 8-snip-- By the way if you are testing you need to reset showWelcomeWizard to 1 in ~/.config/QuantumGIS/QGIS.conf each time you run QGIS in order to see the wizard. I guess it should be added to the help menu too... Here is what it looks like

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Dobias
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: I think I already mentioned I actually did the work for this before as part of a 'first run' wizard (which could also be launched from a menu I guess). Actually it just did the steop of adding the user to the users map,

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Jim Hammack
Martin, No, you are not the only one. I agree completely and I like your map canvas idea. Jim On 11/17/2011 10:15 AM, Martin Dobias wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 17/11/2011 17:15, Martin Dobias ha scritto: am I the only one here who thinks that 'first run' wizards (and tips on start) are bad for user experience? :-) Sniff! My nice wizardok I'll put it back in the

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Dobias
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: Sniff! My nice wizardok I'll put it back in the /dev/null where it came from. Personally I don't like lots of dialogs popping up everywhere so using the canvas space to show some information at start really does seem

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Dobias
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 17/11/2011 17:15, Martin Dobias ha scritto: am I the only one here who thinks that 'first run' wizards (and tips on start) are bad for user experience? :-) We are at least two. My suggestion was different:

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-17 Thread Gary Sherman
On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: kill a poor innocent little wizard That is against the law in most countries... -gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gary Sherman GeoApt LLC http://geoapt.com Chair, QGIS PSC Books: http://desktopgisbook.com http://qgisbook.com

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-16 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2011/11/15 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it: Hi all. I think we could add a menu item to qgis, allowing an user to register as such: - subscribing to the -users mailng list - adding an username to the new plugin app (so plugin reports can be identified) +1 but on the last point keep

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-16 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/15 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it: Hi all. I think we could add a menu item to qgis, allowing an user to register as such: - subscribing to the -users mailng list - adding an username to the new

[Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-15 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all. I think we could add a menu item to qgis, allowing an user to register as such: - subscribing to the -users mailng list - adding an username to the new plugin app (so plugin reports can be identified) - collecting stats - adding to the users map. It should be simple and will let us

Re: [Qgis-developer] official qgis users?

2011-11-15 Thread kimaidou
Very good idea indeed +1 from me 2011/11/15 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it Hi all. I think we could add a menu item to qgis, allowing an user to register as such: - subscribing to the -users mailng list - adding an username to the new plugin app (so plugin reports can be