(time to revive this discussion)
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:33 AM, Moritz Lennert <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:34:58 +0000, > Stefan Blumentrath <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> 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. > > Some even dream of a one-button system... Three buttons at most: in - out - help :) >> 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... > > We discussed this today. I personally agree that using something else > than PERMANENT is good practice, but at the argument was that this is > probably not really relevant for first time users and that using > mapsets is actually already an advanced usage of GRASS. > >> >> 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). > > Again, we discussed this today. One suggestion was even to > automagically create a hidden GISDBASE directory and just create the > first location there. Again, does a new user really have to worry about > the location of the GISDBASE ? +1 >> In any case, I would also consider a "don`t show this message again" >> checkbox together with a grassrc setting... This would be nice. [...] >> For better wiki structure, the page was renamed to: >> >> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup best, Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
