[GRASS-dev] some impressions on the wx interface

[Michael Barton]

On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:12 PM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:37:25 +0200
> From: Robert Szczepanek <robert at szczepanek.pl>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] some impressions on the wx interface
> To: Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu>
> Cc: Carlos Grohmann <carlos.grohmann at gmail.com>,        grass-dev
>        <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Message-ID: <4AAAB505.9070006 at szczepanek.pl>
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> Hello Helena and Carlos,
>
> Thank you for valuable comments on GUI.
>
> Helena Mitasova pisze:
>> Little bit of cosmetics to wxGUI would indeed help, especially for  
>> new
>> users - see my comments below:
>>
>> On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Carlos Grohmann wrote:
>>> In the Map Display, the "overlay" icon doesn't really mean much, I
>>> think that a different image would help, or even three buttons, one
>>> for legend, one for north arrow and on for text.
>>
>> YES!!! Everybody here complains that they cannot find the legend  
>> button.
>> Even if you read the wxGUI help - it is hard to remember.
>
> Which version are we talking about?

This one

> http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/icons/grass2/element-add.png

>
> I agree with you. None of them is good :)
> Any idea how it should look like?
> Explicit version like this one?
> http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icon/0.1/overlay-add.png

Big improvement from my perspective.

Thanks
Michael

>
> Robert