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

[Vaclav Petras]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Would replacing the word "Warning" with "Hint", or nothing solve the issue
for you? Or changing the color? (Supposing that we don't have a mechanism
to create a dir automatically and we want to provide info to the user.)
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