[GRASS-dev] reducing screen clutter

[Benjamin Ducke]

This sounds like a familiar problem. Most file/web
browsers let the choose whether to stay in the same
window or open a new one when browsing to a new
location.

So perhaps there should be an option in the GUI to
"allow multiple windows per module" which could be
set to "false" by default?

Ben

On 05/24/2012 05:34 PM, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
> True that having the same dialogue open several times can be annoying.
> But not always, it may come in handy if you want to run the same module
> several times with different parameters (run at the same time, or
> prepare one while the other is still running; btw, I actually never
> checked how it is handled if you run the same function twice in
> parallel, are they run at the same time on different cores?).
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu
> <mailto:Michael.Barton at asu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     This is one way, but not exactly what I was talking about. In fact,
>     sometimes it is very useful to keep a dialog box open to rerun the
>     same module repeatedly with different parameters.
>
>     What I meant is that once it is open, GRASS should not open
>     additional dialogs for the same module but simply reuse the one that
>     is open. That way you never get 5 windows for v.distance, only
>     1--even if you leave it open.
>
>     Michael
>
>
>
>     On May 24, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>
>      > On 24/05/12 12:25, Chemin, Yann (IWMI) wrote:
>      >> Maybe we can modify the GUI preferences:
>      >>
>      >> Default: All dialog boxes close after a run is complete
>      >> In Preferences: Tick this box if you want the dialog boxes to be
>     closed
>      >> manually (i.e. stay after a run)
>      >
>      >
>      > The tick box already exists, so you are suggesting to make
>     closing the dialog the default ? I find it quite useful, especially
>     for newbies, to have the dialog open and be able to correct wrong
>     input, instead of having to fill the whole dialog out again... But I
>     can confirm that it takes some teaching to make them aware of that
>     feature and avoid that they open the same command ten times. ;-)
>      >
>      > Moritz
>
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