Hi Moritz, Looks nice.
The "Open into a predefined lat-long location but give information message" option seems less involved than the first. Thus if "simplification" is the aim, I would probably continue in that direction. Having lots of choices already at the first startup-screen is probably counter-productive. An example location can be helpful for new users to get the concept in any case. And I would suggest to start the predefined lat-lon location in a mapset other than PERMANENT... However, the placement of the GISDBASE directory is also an important choice, that is not covert by the current mockups. So, maybe a more wizard like approach might be worth a thought? Right after choosing the GISDBASE dir, there can then be a "let me explore in sample project" button (together with the other main buttons from the first alternative maybe). In any case, I would also consider a "don`t show this message again" checkbox together with a grassrc setting... And users should be informed in advance before additional data is downloaded. Cheers Stefan P.S.: A less relevant side note: Personally I rather translate mapsets with "projects" (but that is not very accurate either)... -----Original Message----- From: grass-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Moritz Lennert Sent: mandag 19. mars 2018 21.48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Brainstorm about new GRASS GIS startup Le Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:23:14 +0100, Moritz Lennert <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > At the code sprint in Bonn we (including virtually with Helena, Anna > and Vaclav) discussed about possibilities of making the GRASS GIS > startup more newbie friendly. This raises several issues concerning > what we should do concerning possible default startup location, > default GISDBASE, etc. > > I started a wiki page to collect ideas and reflections: > > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/New_Startup For better wiki structure, the page was renamed to: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup Moritz _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
