[GRASS-dev] New GUI startup discussion

[Moritz Lennert]

On 15/05/20 03:54, Vaclav Petras wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:29 PM Robert Lagacé 
> <robert.lagace.qc at gmail.com <mailto:robert.lagace.qc at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Le 20-05-14 à 16 h 51, Vaclav Petras a écrit :
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>>     * 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.
> 
> 
> Yes, but even now you can something better than that in 7.6 and 7.8. See 
> my previous response. GRASS GIS tries to guess where is your grassdata 
> directory. It needs to be named that way ("grassdata") and it needs to 
> be in your home directory or in your Documents directory. (It should 
> work regardless of locale at least on Linux and Windows. From the 
> comments in the code [1], it seems I didn't study macOS when I 
> implemented that, but I would expected that to work.) Let us know if 
> this works for you. (Does it behave this way and is it what you are 
> looking for?)

Any reason you only look for grassdata in lower case ? I might be old 
fashioned, but personnally I generally follow the idea of lowercase = 
file, uppercase = directory. Why not check for grassdata regardless of 
case, i.e. also accepting GRASSDATA or Grassdata or GRASSData?

Moritz