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Michael Toews wrote: > Hi, > > I've tested replacing qgis 0.11 with 1.0.2 at my office, and I've come across > a few issues with the stand-alone Windows installer. (The OSGeo4W installer > does not have any of these issues.) > > As recently discovered, the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package > needs to be installed on some systems. Can this be included with the > installation? As far as I know it needs to be run separately...I'll try to figure out how to automate this, but for now its not possible. > > On starting QGIS on a clean system for the first time, > a message box shows "QGIS couldn't find your GRASS installation. Would you like to specify path (GISBASE) to your GRASS installation." After clicking "Cancel", another message: "GRASS data won't be available if GISBASE is not specified". There never was a GRASS installation on the system, so these dialogs come out of left-field for a basic user that does not know what GRASS is. It is also not obvious to a new user to suppress this message by turning off GRASS in the plugin manager. > > After QGIS has started, the toolbar is FULL of icons. Inspecting QGIS Plugin > Manager, I see that ALL installed plugins are enabled by default. This is > excessive, and is/was not the case on 0.11 stand-alone or the current OSGeo4W > versions. Many users simply dont realise the plugins exist if they are not turned on by default. There is no way to keep everyone happy on this at the moment. In a future version of unstable I am planning a 'first run' wizard that will guide the user through making a selection of plugins to enable. Its unlikely that this will be backported to 1.0.x though. > > Is it possible to revert to previous behaviour (or same as OSGeo4W > behaviour), where none of the plugins are enabled by default? This will > streamline the initial startup for a new user since it won't show the GISBASE > messages, it will startup faster, and the interface will not be clustered > with icons from all available plugins. As mentioned above, this was *added* to streamline things for the new user. I will try to find a way to resolve the GRASS issue though. Out of interest, how many users are you deploying this build of QGIS to? Regards - -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoTSP4ACgkQqk07qZdiYjeykQCfa39BI4RTR9z2MHOGudwPA+A4 3YcAn3DysIXSDm7muCL+cWXvTLD0YWxb =4U7I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
