Just a users's opinion for what it is worth... =D<br><br>I really like the GUI setup for GRASS under GIS.M. It is very intuitive and the non-modal windows are *awesome*. truely lets one multi-task while GRASSing. Great improvement over the previous GUI. that output manager is sweet too! Plus the menus can be undocked. Compariing to it to that *other* software company that is so prevalent in the US, GRASS is more logically organized (even for those of us across the great blue sea! =D in their "toolbox" there are so many eye-candy widgets that one often finds them self searching for the tool in the "help" because it takes so much time to root throgh the unclearly organized "toolbox".
<br><br>GRASS is wonderful. I have been using it for many years now learning and light use. Now that I am using it extensively I have really come to appreciate the rich features, great interface and reliability.<br><br>
All the developers have really built a great GIS. Keep up the great work. It is enjoyed by many.<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hamish</b> <<a href="mailto:hamish_nospam@yahoo.com">
hamish_nospam@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Michael Barton wrote:<br>><br>> That said, it could be convenient to attach/dock a map display to the
<br>> layer manager, in order to move them around together. I'm looking into<br>> a way to do that. May or may not be possible.<br><br>if this is possible, it would make both camps happy.<br><br>another way too gee-whiz eye candy solution is a pop-down semi-
<br>transparent heads-up-display overlay in the display window. ;)<br><br>> This is not referring to the properties dialogs for each GRASS<br>> command. These are unavoidable if you want to run the command, but can<br>
> be closed to clean up the screen. Press OK instead of Apply and the<br>> window goes away. Grouping them into a single MDI wouldn't make them<br>> any easier to work with or less cluttered. Hamish has suggested making
<br>> them modal by default, with the option of keeping them open if you<br>> want via a checkbox. This sort of forces you to keep your screen clean<br>> unless you really want to do otherwise.<br><br>Ah, I didn't know about [Ok] and [Apply] for the module GUIs. That's a
<br>lot clearer than a "keep alive" checkbox, and obviates the need.<br>Generally I think that Apply buttons are not that useful, but they could<br>do a very nice job here.<br><br><br><br>Hamish<br><br>_______________________________________________
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