<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Gidday from down under...<br><br>FWIW, when we commissioned Quantum Map<br>(<a href="https://www.niwa.co.nz/software/quantum-map">https://www.niwa.co.nz/software/quantum-map</a>, one initial objective was to create a less intimidating GUI for first time users. <br><br>We based this on potential user's feedback & the GIS users pyramid (described with a very ESRI centric perspective here <a href="http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/gis-nostalgia-at-the-base-of-the-gis-pyramid/123099">http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/gis-nostalgia-at-the-base-of-the-gis-pyramid/123099</a> )<br><br>but essentially:<br> / \<br> /create\<br> / edit \<br> / analyse \<br> / visualise \<br><br>ie: the
bottom (largest) tier of real or potential GIS users just want to see their data as a map (layer) on a screen. Maybe query features. Some want to analyse data, & the GIS professionals tend to do most of the data creation. Of course, some users move up the pyramid with experience (& some don't fit the model at all :-)<br><br>From our perspective this has been very successful, Quantum Map does simple things simply, & if you like, provides a stepping stone to QGIS if people are ready to use the extra capability.<br><br>So I think the idea of selectable profiles to enable a simple default & add (unhide) capability when you are ready for it is a good idea. Going beyond the existing selectable menus, to a list of user levels, rather than explicit functionality. <br><br>What do the terms "Digitising" & "Advanced digitising" mean to inexperienced GIS users? It is confusing at best, intimidating at worst. <br><br>Ahhh, the simple days of QGIS
0.2 as my primary desktop mapping tool! :-)<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br> Brent Wood<br><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 10/24/12, Paolo Cavallini <i><cavallini@faunalia.it></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@faunalia.it><br>Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] User profiles<br>To: "Martin Dobias" <wonder.sk@gmail.com><br>Cc: "qgis-developer" <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org><br>Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 12:50 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Il 24/10/2012 01:43, Martin Dobias ha scritto:<br>> I am just afraid that with such profiles the users may forget after a<br>> while they have chosen a "first-time user" profile that disables a lot<br>> of functionality and then users will ask/complain about missing<br>> features...? <br>yes, that's why I wrote we have to put prominently a menu "back to
full<br>qgis" or "rerun the wizard", or similar<br>> btw. Personally I'm quite intimidated by the amount of toolbars and<br>> icons that QGIS shows by default (i.e. first run). I think if we could<br>> cut that down to a one line of icons, that will be a good start. <br>sure - the first natural candidates are all the "load<br>vector|raster|etc." buttons, as the same functionality is in the<br>browser: what do we miss if we remove them now?<br>All the best.<br><br>-- <br>Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia<br>www.faunalia.eu<br>Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc<br>Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: <a href="http://www.faunalia.it/calendario" target="_blank">http://www.faunalia.it/calendario</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-developer mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a
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