[GRASS-dev] Re: reducing screen clutter

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 24/05/12 17:57, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 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?

This would be a good (and intuitive) suggestion.

Cheers,

Rainer


> 
> 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?).
>> 
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>> 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
>> 
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>> 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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