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

[Vaclav Petras]

So, ok, I committed the fix, but I'm not comfortable with it. Please see
the ticked and test the change.

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1742#comment:17


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, moving the menu discussion to the ticked:
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> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1742#comment:16
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> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Vaclav wrote:
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>> > * For finding and running a module, user should use the module
>> > tree in the search modules tab.
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>> Hi,
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>> 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.
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>> 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)
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>> regards,
>> Hamish
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