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This is an improvement over what we have now.
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<div class="">Commenting on other subsequent posts (a lot happened while I was in the meeting).</div>
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<div class="">We don’t need “Welcome to GRASS GIS” here. We can have that in the splash.</div>
<div class="">Actually, it would be better visually to have the splash appear first, followed by the startup screen.</div>
<div class="">My students (experienced GRASS users now) commented on how intimidating the start up screen is. </div>
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<div class="">We probably don’t need the word “project” with “location” both are specific to GRASS in this meaning and along with “mapset” not generally understandable otherwise (which is part of the problem).</div>
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<div class="">Maybe we need to have space for a simple 1,2,3 steps</div>
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<div class="">1. Choose GIS data directory</div>
<div class="">2. Choose location (projection/coordinate system)</div>
<div class="">3. Choose mapset (directory of GIS files)</div>
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<div class="">Then we don’t need the same explanation over the control widgets.</div>
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<div class="">OR (note that step 3 is to the right of step 2 as it is now)</div>
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<div class="">Step 1: Choose GIS data directory [text entry control for path]</div>
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<div class="">Step 2: Choose location </div>
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<div class="">[list chooser control for location]</div>
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<div class="">Step 3: Choose mapset </div>
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<div class="">Other stuff below and to right of list choice controls.</div>
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<div class="">Maybe other thoughts on how to improve usability here?</div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">C. Michael Barton </span></font></div>
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<div class="">On Jan 21, 2015, at 10:04 AM, <a href="mailto:grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org" class="">
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<span class="">On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Vincent Bain <<a href="mailto:bain@toraval.fr" class="">bain@toraval.fr</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="gmail_extra">Please, have a look at my suggestion in the attachment for welcome/startup screen/window. It contains a graphics but it has small height. Title and whole upper part is changed. Note that it is actually done in code, so it is pretty
precise, except for the graphics which was done just quickly. The gray in the background of the image is the one of the window done using transparency so it should always match with the window. Unfortunately, this will fail miserably when somebody has dark
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<div class="gmail_extra">I would also like to change some terms used in the startup window. Namely, avoid using ambiguous word "project". If it is not clear, use "GRASS location", otherwise just "location". Same for mapset. We should also let the translators
know that location and mapset should not be translated, or translated very carefully. Perhaps also, "Start GRASS" should be replaced by "Start GRASS session" which is something we avoid in documentation but it is quite crucial to understand how it works.<br class="">
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<div class="gmail_extra">I like the splash with grass in the background. Hopefully, there is enough CC BY images out there.</div>
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