[GRASS-dev] Re: [SoC] Proposal for wxGUI layout modifications

[Michael Barton]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:21 AM, <Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov> wrote:

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> >it is nice to keep a module gui open so you can tweak one parameter  
> and
> >run it again. it is nice to keep a couple open and switch between  
> them
> >if you are doing something on a multi-processor machine (if doing so
> >within a single mapset, at your own responsibility and risk that the
> >computation region etc is not changed of course :) for that reason  
> you
> >might want to have e.g. 3 r.in.xyz's running at the same time, each
> >crunching along on a different statistical method.
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> This is something that I do a lot and is extremely valuable when  
> simultaneously bulk processing multiple return Lidar data for  
> different statistics.  Please keep this feature of the gui!
>

Which feature?
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> Michael Barton wrote:
> > Actually, I think what (I hope) was
> > envisioned was not a true MDI--which has lost considerable
> > popularity--but attaching the layer manager to the display
> > window. Ideally, this could be done by docking or
> > undocking.
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> > That said, Markus and I had some offline discussions about
> > this since he was the proposer, in response to some user
> > comments and his own experiences. The main complaint is
> > having too many windows open in GRASS.
> >
> > After some talking about it, the real problem may not lie
> > primarily with the layer manager/display windows but with
> > all the module windows which a lot of people don't realize
> > that you can set to close automatically when you push OK.
> > Some possible solutions to this would include having all
> > modules open in a single window with tabs or modally in a
> > single window or modally in a window attached to the layer
> > manager to keep down clutter. By focusing a bit much on the
> > initial display configuration of a couple of other GIS
> > programs (ArcGIS and QGIS, but not in a lot of others by the
> > way), we may have missed the real cause of the perceived
> > screen clutter. Anyway, it's something to think about.
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> [we should probably move this to the grass-dev ML]
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