[Qgis-developer] [Gfoss] There is a way to eliminate the "Recent Projects" startup screen ?

Luigi Pirelli luipir at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 00:16:22 PST 2015


Me too

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015, Michael Kirk <michael.john.kirk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I prefer the new "recent projects" screen as opposed to a blank screen
> or opening my "last project".
>
> As I bounce between a couple of projects from day to day, the list is
> quite helpfule.
>
> Ranked by frequency, I'd estimate my use cases as:
>
> 70% I'm opening the last project I worked on.
> 20% I'm opening a project I've recently worked on.
> 5% I'm starting a new project.
> 5% I'm opening a project I worked on a long time ago.
>
> Even though I'm usually opening my most recent project, I still prefer
> the list of my last few recent projects because I do use them somewhat
> regularly, while getting my "most recent" is only one click away.
>
> So the pain of clicking once to get my most recent project 70% of the
> time outweighs the risk of entering a file dialog 20% of the time.
>
> And considering that in previous releases I had to enter a file dialog
> 100% of the time, this is a great improvement =)
>
> M
>
>
> On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 07:29 -0800, qgis-developer-
> request at lists.osgeo.org <javascript:;> wrote:
> >
> > > It'd still be good to know why you want the recent project disabled
> > on
> > > startup.
> > >
> >
> > Trade Secret.
> > :(
> >
> > No, seriously: I wrote a book and I had to change the pages and
> > images.
> >
> > ;)
> >
> >
> > A presto
> >
> > Roberto
> >
> > PS: I could turn the question around: why you entered a useless page
> > of old
> > projects, and instead open the last directly, as does MapWindow? I've
> > seen
> > it: you can do that too. However, I prefer a blank page instead of
> > showing others
> > (my wife)  what I was doing   ;)
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