[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #3279: Add Region tab to the main GUI

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#3279: Add Region tab to the main GUI
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  Reporter:  wenzeslaus  |      Owner:  grass-dev@…
      Type:              |     Status:  new
  enhancement            |
  Priority:  major       |  Milestone:  7.4.0
 Component:  wxGUI       |    Version:  svn-trunk
Resolution:              |   Keywords:  g.region, extent, resolution,
       CPU:              |  novice, beginner, user-friendliness
  Unspecified            |   Platform:  Unspecified
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Comment (by mlennert):

 Replying to [ticket:3279 wenzeslaus]:
 > I suggest to add another tab to the Layer Manager which would handle
 (and show) all things related to the (current) computational region.
 [...]
 > This may raise awareness of new users about computational region and
 encourage all users to remember it before running modules. There can be
 even a short explanation what does it do.
 >


 Nice idea !

 As we are speaking about this: It would be great if the computational
 extent and resolution dialog would allow drawing the region extent
 interactively. I guess this would probably mean some call to OSM or
 similar in order to display a meaningful map at different zooming levels.

 >
 > Problems:
 >
 > * Name: ''Region'' is not completely clear, but we decided to go with
 one word, so ''Computational Region'' is not an option. ''g.region'' would
 be less readable for novices and inconsistent.
 > * Although for English there is still space even when ''3D view'' is
 active, we may be running out of space for some languages.
 > * How many of these tabs do we what to add (allowed to be added) there?
 >  * Spatial Database, Location, Mapset
 >  * Thing related to Map Display, Vector Digitizer, ... (as for 3D view)
 >  * General preferences which needs to be changed often (Map Display
 color, font, projection statusbar settings)
 >  * Documentation (Doc, Man)
 >  * R, Jupyter Notebook, ...

 I think we should not overdo it with these tabs, or we should allow
 activating/desactivating (some of them). IMHO, the idea should not be to
 put all of GRASS GIS into wxGUI tabs ;-)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3279#comment:3>
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