[GRASS-dev] New GUI startup discussion

[Vaclav Petras]

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 8:25 AM Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
wrote:

> 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 :
> >>
> >>     * 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?
>

Sound good. Just open an issue to discuss the details.
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