[GRASS-dev] Making start of GRASS GIS easier for newcomers

[Vaclav Petras]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Markus Metz
> <markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> More improvements for startup window in r64405.
>
> Please let's not welcome a (new) user with a warning... looks scary.


I though that warning is better then error dialog which was there from very
beginning of wxGUI. See comparison in the attachment. Note also that after
pressing OK you got the browse dialog. I'm afraid I'm not able to deliver
something better before the release, at least not RC2.

If a grassdata dir and some location would be automatically created (copied
demo location), it should not show anything. Currently it is just using
whatever was there which apparently suffers from some mess in (between)
grass.py and gis_set.py which is creating some rc file but not good enough
and it is not checking if something is actually in the guessed gisdbase.
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