[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2042: wxgui: no more menu access to r.in.gdal / v.in.ogr

[GRASS GIS]

#2042: wxgui: no more menu access to r.in.gdal / v.in.ogr
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  Reporter:  mlennert     |      Owner:  grass-dev@…
      Type:  defect       |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  7.0.0
 Component:  wxGUI        |    Version:  svn-trunk
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  r.in.gdal, v.in.ogr, gui
       CPU:  Unspecified  |   Platform:  Unspecified
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Comment (by hellik):

 Replying to [comment:18 marisn]:
 > AAAGH! It's the end of 2015 and GRASS continues its death march towards
 "let's dumb it down to not confuse beginners and thus lose the only reason
 why we are still relevant". If there are no "advanced" features then
 "beginners" do not see any reason why to use GRASS not QGIS (and I have to
 agree with it). If you want to see how it will end, just take a look at
 Firefox.
 >
 > I just had to explain to a QGIS user why he can not find in GRASS
 "snapping tolerance" setting he had been using in QGIS. Reason - you must
 belong to the secret society who passes its secrets only to chosen ones
 and type --ui in that black window to get a dialog with all options not an
 useless dumbed down version where is not possible to change any of not-so-
 common properties under e.g. button "advanced". (Yes, v.in.ogr snapping
 setting is exposed to QGIS users and, as far as I know, nobody has died
 because of it)
 >
 > I do not thing that users who get confused by "Launch advanced
 interface" button are the target audience of GRASS GIS.

 I'm strongly +1 for re-adding an advanced button to the wizzard. As I'm
 often working with foreign data which needs often finetuning for importing
 (e.g. snapping tolerance, where selection, etc). it's annoying to always
 start with --ui.

 I'm not sure why a 'normal' user should be confused with a advanced
 button. What is a 'normal' user?

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