[GRASS5] starting discussion on next generation UI
Paolo Cavallini
cavallini at faunalia.it
Sat Jul 30 01:57:51 EDT 2005
Hi all.
I applaud Michael for rising the question. My personal feelings from a
professional user prespective:
At 22:54, venerdì 29 luglio 2005, Michael Barton has probably written:
>
> - - - WISH LIST FOR GRASS UI - - -
>
> 1. I think GRASS should continue to have its own integral, default
> UIalthough the beauty of an open source tool like this is that is can also
> be incorporated into other projects and UI¹s. The recent GRASS user survey
> suggests that most GRASS users also want an integral UI for GRASS
Do not agree. Qgis as an interface has unparalleled ease of use, a strong
community and fast developmente, and features of paramount importance (one
for all: point-and-click printing). My suggestion is to channel efforts in
this direction. With very limited work we can have all common GRASS commands
available in qgis. This has the important advantage of enlarging the user
base for grass (one long-standing problem), smoothing the learning curve
(notoriously the main obstacle for the adoption of grass in many real-world
situations).
> 2 . We need to maintain a command line interface (for power users and for
> scripting) AND have a graphical UI
Agreed fully.
> 5. I wonder if there is a way to seamlessly combine NVIZ-like visualization
> with the standard¹ displays so that all displays have the potential for
> 2.5D and 3D display and we don¹t have to run a special visualization
> module?
I believe NVIZ requires a more or less complete rewriting. Current version is
rather fragile (it is probably the GRASS command that required most
troubleshooting, at least in our installations), and does not use advanced
visualization features now present in all graphic cards.
> 8. Users should be able to customize the UI to some extent, so that they
> could have the tools they use most often easily accessible, but wouldn¹t
> always have to wade through the entire tool set.
Agreed.
All the best.
pc
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