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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN DEFANGED_STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I am very happy about all the interest and comments generated by the proposal for the next generation GUI for GRASS. I will compile these and hope to work with people interested working on this part of the GRASS project to come up a set of UI specs and proposed roadmap for consideration by early next year. In the meantime, please continue with the comments and suggestions. They are very helpful and represent thoughts about how to make GIS useable from the people who are actually using GIS on a daily basis.<BR>
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A couple things would help me and others to begin to parse the your ideas into a coherent proposal. </SPAN></FONT><SPAN DEFANGED_STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Christian Wygoda suggested that we begin to use the grassgui list. This has been a largely inactive list for awhile. But this seems like the perfect time to reactivate it, especially as it has a pretty large member list. <BR>
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So I’d request that you cross-post any general comments on the gui proposal to </FONT></SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN DEFANGED_STYLE='font-size:10.0px'><U>grassgui@grass.itc.it<BR>
</U></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>For nitty-gritt discussions about the gui, it may be best to focus primarily on the gui list. Is this OK with everyone? I’m happy to cross-post all to the developer’s list if this is desired, but don’t want to fill everyone’s mailboxes with double posts.<BR>
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Second, for any comments that involve comparisons with the current GRASS GUI (I like this, but...; I really don’t like this...; I like how x is done better in [name your GIS/interface]), it would be helpful if you could specify which GRASS version you’re working with. Even better, it would be helpful if you are using the current 6.1 cvs version. The reason is that the GUI (even the TclTk GUI) has evolved considerably since version 6.0 and is a completely different experience from 5.4. This will also help in making improvements to the current UI (which must still serve for awhile) while we’re developing a new one.<BR>
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Thanks again for all the interest. It is greatly appreciated.<BR>
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Michael<BR>
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology<BR>
School of Human Evolution and Social Change<BR>
Arizona State University<BR>
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