Hi On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Stefan Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Thanks for the report, Andreas. Here's my two cents: > > First of all I am happy that the workshop was accepted by the AGIT > team even though the deadline of the Call for Workshops was over. > > So next year I hope we come up earlier with a workshop submission. > Actually I think that the next CfP will already weill be issued in > december this year! As you may have realized is that the gvSIG user > community even went a step further and organized a user meeting during > the conference. > > Regarding the feedback to QGIS the most important issues already have > been said. Being someone who teaches at university level using QGIS I > only want to add following some specific issues which persistently > come up from new users: > > First, some defaults configuration seem to be quite suboptimal and it > would be easy to assign the task of an optimized default setting to > some sort of "user experience" (UX) team. > > Second, the testing of the windows version often seems to be neglected > or behind the "hardcore linux" committers. > > Third, the whole handling of the CRS seems to be suboptimal: I'm > referring specifically to the layer CRS settings (accessed by the > context menu in the layer list to the left). In the dialog there, > there currently (1.7/1.8) is no clue which is the CRS which is > currently active (or "set"). > > Finally, there are more than one "modules", where there exists an > "old" and a "new" implementation of the same functionality, like the > labelling engine. At least for new users I would expect that the new > functionality should be activated (maintainers of legacy applications > should be experienced enough to "switch" and configure back since they > have to test new QGIS version anyway). >
Thanks for the feedback - yes we will definately be working on the user experience (within what resources we have as a volunteer community). Regards Tim > Yours, Stefan > > > 2012/7/10 Tim Sutton <[email protected]>: >> Hi all >> >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Anita Graser <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thanks for all your thoughts so far. I also think that being neighbors with >>> OSM group was great. They had a lot of great booth material (big posters, >>> mugs, pins, small printout examples, ...) - something we can definitely >>> learn from them. >>> >>> I opened a ticket for the plugin list issue http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5980 >>> and the default icon set http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5981 >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> Anita >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >>> >> >> >> Thanks for this really nice feedback everyone. I agree that 2.0 is >> probably a good time to update the icon theme. I still tend to use the >> 'old' one as I find the icons easier to recognise. Robert had talked >> about making an update to the GIS theme with more saturated icons as >> the difference between icons is often difficult to distinguish >> quickly. I will start a separate thread with this poll [1] and lets >> wait say a week to make sure there is 50% or more in the 'do it now' >> camp. >> >> Werner / Anita could you embed it on the home page too maybe using [2]? >> >> >> [1] http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4ffb5dfae4b08ad9dfac3f70 >> [2] <script type="text/javascript" >> src="http://www.easypolls.net/ext/scripts/emPoll.js?p=4ffb5dfae4b08ad9dfac3f70";></script><a >> class="OPP-powered-by" href="http://www.easypolls.net/"; >> style="text-decoration:none;"><div style="font: 9px arial; color: >> gray;">free polls</div></a> >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> ============================================== >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- 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 ============================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
