[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 7 tech-preview release preparations

[Vaclav Petras]

Hi, moving the menu discussion to the ticked:

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1742#comment:16




On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Vaclav wrote:
>
> > * For finding and running a module, user should use the module
> > tree in the search modules tab.
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I welcome better presentation of the menus since they get rather big
> (platoon rule of thumb: any more than ~12 in any level/group gets a bit
> overwhelming), but wrt "search to run" as the primary instead of augmenting
> method, I fear that way is not very discoverable -- at least I'd like to
> avoid the situation where a new user needs to know the name of what they're
> looking for before they can find it, which isn't so good to explore & learn
> about new modules you don't know exist yet. Especially for a software so
> big as ours which takes years to fully know.
>
> We are spatial creatures, so a spatial model for menu layout where we can
> use our spatial & muscle memories helps I think. Our monitors are getting
> really wide these days, both desktop and laptop, and so top menu bars will
> fit even better than they used to, we just have to make the windows a bit
> wider to compensate. Luckily these days there's space for that. (2c)
>
>
> regards,
> Hamish
>
>
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