[GRASS-dev] gis.m: not drawing centroids by default

[Michael Barton]

I agree, but don't think it is dumbing down. That would be taking them out
altogether. 

It is trying to find a set of things to view by default so that most people
don't have to mess with it most of the time. This is difficult without
extensive marketing studies--and sometimes even with them.

Michael


On 2/8/07 5:24 PM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It's a dumbing down vs ease of use compromise... no correct answer..
> 
> Others may not agree, but IMO centroids are a "debugging" feature and it
> is ok to have them off by default from the GUI. Regarless, a solution
> that sets their default symbol to "x" while leaving the points default
> symbol as "o" would be nice.

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