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

[Vaclav Petras]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> To satisfy everybody, I suggest to provide a buttons with something like
>> "Take me to LL", "Take me to default location" and "Take me to XY". What do
>> you think about that?
>>
>> But the real improvement should be the messages which would guide you
>> through the process.
>>
>
> So, here is screenshot and diff for new layout of the window together the
> description what the things are useful for. The descriptions can be easily
> changed, they are wrapped texts, so they will work well with translations.
> So, feel free to suggest different ones. We can also make them "gray" as
> suggested earlier.
>
> I used GRASS Location and Location. I though that GRASS could help to
> emphasize that it is something GRASS-related and few people were using
> Location and Mapset with capital letter which could say that it is a
> something like files format or spatial database name. I aimed to address
> the things I considered confusing. I'm not sure about the GRASS GIS data
> directory as I mentioned earlier.
>
> Now it is higher then the old one but with removal of the image it will be
> smaller. If a small-enough image is used, it could be the same. I would
> like to not include the image to have more space for the error messages
> (currently one line between GISDBASE and Location boxes), so messages can
> be longer and perhaps some what to do next tips can be shown as well. The
> position of this text can/should be changed, now middle of the window
> (usually these are at the bottom or at the top). However, without image it
> might be actually a little boring.
>
> I reorganized the buttons to manage the (list of) Locations and (list of)
> Mapsets, so now it looks like any other lists, e.g. in Simple Layer Manager
> or in Cartographic Composer. In future we can add buttons, for example
> unpack a zipped location or download sample datasets in case of Locations
> and show existing maps button in case of Mapsets.
>
>
Done in r64345.

Now the change of minimal height is needed to actually make it work on
small screens.

Please, read the previous message and commit message for a discussion and
description.

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/64345
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