[GRASS-dev] Brainstorm about new GRASS GIS startup

[Stefan Blumentrath]

Hi Moritz,

Looks nice.

The "Open into a predefined lat-long location but give information message" option seems less involved than the first. Thus if "simplification" is the aim, I would probably continue in that direction. Having lots of choices already at the first startup-screen is probably counter-productive.

An example location can be helpful for new users to get the concept in any case. And I would suggest to start the predefined lat-lon location in a mapset other than PERMANENT...

However, the placement of the GISDBASE directory is also an important choice, that is not covert by the current mockups. So, maybe a more wizard like approach might be worth a thought? Right after choosing the GISDBASE dir, there can then be a "let me explore in sample project" button (together with the other main buttons from the first alternative maybe).  

In any case, I would also consider a "don`t show this message again" checkbox together with a grassrc setting...

And users should be informed in advance before additional data is downloaded.

Cheers
Stefan 

P.S.: A less relevant side note: Personally I rather translate mapsets with "projects" (but that is not very accurate either)...

-----Original Message-----
From: grass-dev [mailto:grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Moritz Lennert
Sent: mandag 19. mars 2018 21.48
To: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Brainstorm about new GRASS GIS startup

Le Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:23:14 +0100,
Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> a écrit :

> Hi everyone,
> 
> At the code sprint in Bonn we (including virtually with Helena, Anna 
> and Vaclav) discussed about possibilities of making the GRASS GIS 
> startup more newbie friendly. This raises several issues concerning 
> what we should do concerning possible default startup location, 
> default GISDBASE, etc.
> 
> I started a wiki page to collect ideas and reflections:
> 
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/New_Startup

For better wiki structure, the page was renamed to:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup

Moritz

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