Gidday from down under... FWIW, when we commissioned Quantum Map (https://www.niwa.co.nz/software/quantum-map, one initial objective was to create a less intimidating GUI for first time users.
We based this on potential user's feedback & the GIS users pyramid (described with a very ESRI centric perspective here http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/gis-nostalgia-at-the-base-of-the-gis-pyramid/123099 ) but essentially: / \ /create\ / edit \ / analyse \ / visualise \ ie: the bottom (largest) tier of real or potential GIS users just want to see their data as a map (layer) on a screen. Maybe query features. Some want to analyse data, & the GIS professionals tend to do most of the data creation. Of course, some users move up the pyramid with experience (& some don't fit the model at all :-) >From our perspective this has been very successful, Quantum Map does simple >things simply, & if you like, provides a stepping stone to QGIS if people are >ready to use the extra capability. So I think the idea of selectable profiles to enable a simple default & add (unhide) capability when you are ready for it is a good idea. Going beyond the existing selectable menus, to a list of user levels, rather than explicit functionality. What do the terms "Digitising" & "Advanced digitising" mean to inexperienced GIS users? It is confusing at best, intimidating at worst. Ahhh, the simple days of QGIS 0.2 as my primary desktop mapping tool! :-) Cheers, Brent Wood --- On Wed, 10/24/12, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> wrote: From: Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles To: "Martin Dobias" <wonder...@gmail.com> Cc: "qgis-developer" <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 12:50 PM Il 24/10/2012 01:43, Martin Dobias ha scritto: > I am just afraid that with such profiles the users may forget after a > while they have chosen a "first-time user" profile that disables a lot > of functionality and then users will ask/complain about missing > features...? yes, that's why I wrote we have to put prominently a menu "back to full qgis" or "rerun the wizard", or similar > btw. Personally I'm quite intimidated by the amount of toolbars and > icons that QGIS shows by default (i.e. first run). I think if we could > cut that down to a one line of icons, that will be a good start. sure - the first natural candidates are all the "load vector|raster|etc." buttons, as the same functionality is in the browser: what do we miss if we remove them now? All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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