[GRASS-dev] New GUI startup discussion

[Robert Lagacé]

Le 20-05-14 à 16 h 51, Vaclav Petras a écrit :
> [Externe UL*]
> # Meeting minutes
>
> * Discussion happened in two areas plans for GSoC 2020 [1] and general 
> direction and ideas for start of GRASS GIS through GUI with a special 
> focus on the first-time user.
>
> ## GSoC 2020
>
> * GSoC 2020 will be following the incremental additions strategy 
> improving Location Wizard and Data Catalog (aka the Data tab or the 
> Data tree), i.e., it is still roughly following the Prague Roamap [2] 
> bringing immediate improvements to all users.
>
> ## Prague Roadmap concerns and additions
>
> * In Startup screen, selecting (and double-clicking) a raster map in a 
> Data tree should take user to the mapset which contains this raster 
> and *show* this raster.
> * Projection database should be customizable using the same 
> environmental variable which is used by GDAL or PROJ (if there is any).
> * Is double-clicking in the Data tree an obvious way of launching 
> GRASS GIS in a mapset? (Or is it show data for this mapset?)
>
> ## First-time users
>
> * First-time user should not have to deal with a concept of mapset 
> (only addressed in the Location Wizard part of the roadmap).
> * A demo location with some minimal data should be part of the 
> installation and copied to some default palace for the first-time user.
I like very much this one. For specific case or region, we can just ask 
the user to replace those minimal data with a specific data set before 
starting.
>
> ## Left for the next time
>
> * Terminology (e.g., should we embrace the word project?)
> * More detailed analysis of skipping the startup screen, starting in a 
> temporary or demo/world location, and just showing the Data tab 
> instead of the Startup screen.
> * Exact behavior of workspace files, last used files, and last active 
> session.
>
> We plan a next general video meeting like this one some time during 
> the summer.
>
> Best,
> Vaclav
>
> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2020/StartupWindow
> [2] 
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup#PragueRoadmap
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 1:22 PM Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wenzeslaus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     We will meet to discuss ideas for the new startup of GRASS GIS
>     specifically using the GUI. The meeting will be a video call on
>     Thursday starting at 18:00 UTC.
>
>     https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200514T180000&p1=1440&p2=204&p3=195&p4=51&p5=207&p6=671
>
>     This will be a great opportunity to welcome this year's GSoC
>     student Linda Kladivova to our community. Linda will be working on
>     GSoC project which is aiming to move the GUI startup screen to a
>     next level. The GSoC project will be roughly following Proposal
>     A3: Data tree and big buttons [1].
>
>     During the call, we will discuss this proposal and how does it
>     relate to greater ideas about starting GRASS GIS.
>
>     The proposal A3 was developed based on painstaking discussion [3]
>     at Community Sprint in Prague 2019 and is described in a detailed
>     roadmap [4].
>
>     I will send a link to the call here right before the meeting. We
>     will use Zoom.
>
>     Best,
>     Vaclav
>
>     [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2020/StartupWindow
>     [2]
>     https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup#ProposalA3Prague2019:Datatreeandbigbuttons
>     [3]
>     https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup#GRASSGISCommunitySprintPrague2019
>     [4]
>     https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/New_Startup#PragueRoadmap
>
> *ATTENTION : L’émetteur de ce courriel est externe à l’Université Laval.
> Évitez de cliquer sur un hyperlien, d’ouvrir une pièce jointe ou de 
> transmettre des informations si vous ne connaissez pas l’expéditeur du 
> courriel. En cas de doute, contactez l’équipe de soutien informatique 
> de votre unité ou hameconnage at ulaval.ca.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

-- 
P.S. Veuillez noter mon nouveau No de poste téléphonique
-----------
Robert Lagacé, ing., agr., prof.titulaire
Département de SGA
2425 de l'agriculture
Université Laval
Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6
courriel : robert.lagace at fsaa.ulaval.ca<mailto:robert.lagace at fsaa.ulaval.ca>
tél: (418)-656-2131 poste 402276
fax : (418)-656-3723

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/attachments/20200514/f29ac2fd/attachment.html>