[Qgis-user] QGIS presence at the AGIT conference in Salzburg

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Thanks for the report, Andreas. Here's my two cents:
>
> First of all I am happy that the workshop was accepted by the AGIT
> team even though the deadline of the Call for Workshops was over.
>
> So next year I hope we come up earlier with a workshop submission.
> Actually I think that the next CfP will already weill be issued in
> december this year! As you may have realized is that the gvSIG user
> community even went a step further and organized a user meeting during
> the conference.
>
> Regarding the feedback to QGIS the most important issues already have
> been said. Being someone who teaches at university level using QGIS I
> only want to add following some specific issues which persistently
> come up from new users:
>
> First, some defaults configuration seem to be quite suboptimal and it
> would be easy to assign the task of an optimized default setting to
> some sort of "user experience" (UX) team.
>
> Second, the testing of the windows version often seems to be neglected
> or behind the "hardcore linux" committers.
>
> Third, the whole handling of the CRS seems to be suboptimal: I'm
> referring specifically to the layer CRS settings (accessed by the
> context menu in the layer list to the left). In the dialog there,
> there currently (1.7/1.8) is no clue which is the CRS which is
> currently active (or "set").
>
> Finally, there are more than one "modules", where there exists an
> "old" and a "new" implementation of the same functionality, like the
> labelling engine. At least for new users I would expect that the new
> functionality should be activated (maintainers of legacy applications
> should be experienced enough to "switch" and configure back since they
> have to test new QGIS version anyway).
>

Thanks for the feedback - yes we will definately be working on the
user experience (within what resources we have as a volunteer
community).

Regards

Tim


> Yours, Stefan
>
>
> 2012/7/10 Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>:
>> Hi all
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your thoughts so far. I also think that being neighbors with
>>> OSM group was great. They had a lot of great booth material (big posters,
>>> mugs, pins, small printout examples, ...) - something we can definitely
>>> learn from them.
>>>
>>> I opened a ticket for the plugin list issue http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5980
>>> and the default icon set http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5981
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Anita
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> Thanks for this really nice feedback everyone. I agree that 2.0 is
>> probably a good time to update the icon theme. I still tend to use the
>> 'old' one as I find the icons easier to recognise. Robert had talked
>> about making an update to the GIS theme with more saturated icons as
>> the difference between icons is often difficult to distinguish
>> quickly. I will start a separate thread with this poll [1] and lets
>> wait say a week to make sure there is 50% or more in the 'do it now'
>> camp.
>>
>> Werner / Anita could you embed it on the home page too maybe using [2]?
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4ffb5dfae4b08ad9dfac3f70
>> [2] <script type="text/javascript"
>> src="http://www.easypolls.net/ext/scripts/emPoll.js?p=4ffb5dfae4b08ad9dfac3f70"></script><a
>> class="OPP-powered-by" href="http://www.easypolls.net/"
>> style="text-decoration:none;"><div style="font: 9px arial; color:
>> gray;">free polls</div></a>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
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