[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1507: r.in.gdal & others: -e must only modify the current mapset's WIND file

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#1507: r.in.gdal & others: -e must only modify the current mapset's WIND file
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 Reporter:  hamish                           |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect                           |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  blocker                          |   Milestone:  6.4.2                    
Component:  Default                          |     Version:  svn-trunk                
 Keywords:  r.in.gdal, r.external, v.in.ogr  |    Platform:  All                      
      Cpu:  All                              |  
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Comment(by hamish):

 ... for the case of a location created before you knew what the default
 bounds should be, & so you  are left with n=1 s=0 e=1 w=0 in DEFAULT_WIND
 and you want some way to easily update it (restarting in PERMANENT just to
 fix that is a pain), consider that hiding that functionality in r.in.gdal
 & co is a bit weird for something needing a general solution.

 I could see a small "g.region.update_default" addon helper script which
 ran g.mapset to temporarily switch into PERMANENT (with g.mapset's
 appropriate locking tests) run `g.region -s`, then switch back to the
 current mapset, but I don't think such a thing should be part of the main
 distribution.

 perhaps a better solution to that problem is a pop-up tool on the startup
 mapset selection GUI which for the current location gave you a list of
 available mapsets in the same location and let you quickly reset the
 default region from the one you select. this still requires you to
 remember to do it at startup; but maybe the startup GUI could scan for
 0-1,0-1 default regions at startup and color the PERMANENT text orange to
 remind you that it needs doing?

 shrug,
 Hamish

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