(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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> wrote: >> More improvements for startup window in r64405. Please let's not welcome a (new) user with a warning... looks scary. > 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 PERMANENT mapset will be created automatically. Does not apply > to MS Windows, because the demolocation is created during > installation. In theory the demolocation could be everywhere since it is part of the source code and even contains a world map. > Why not having a minimal welcome screen with a dropdown list for > existing locations and a dropdown list for existing mapsets in the > selected location, plus a prominent OK button and a change/manage > button, nothing else? +1 At FOSDEM, we discussed this issue and most discussion participants thought exactly in this direction. > It's the difference between > > "You need to fill in this form first, and fix the errors in the form, > after that you may enter GRASS GIS" > > and > > "Welcome! Just press OK to enter GRASS GIS" Yes, the latters reads way more inviting.... markusN _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
