[GRASS-dev] New GUI startup discussion

[Moritz Lennert]

On 16/05/20 18:08, Vaclav Petras wrote:
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> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 8:25 AM Moritz Lennert 
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>> wrote:
> 
>     On 15/05/20 03:54, Vaclav Petras wrote:
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>      >
>      > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:29 PM Robert Lagacé
>      > <robert.lagace.qc at gmail.com <mailto:robert.lagace.qc at gmail.com>
>     <mailto:robert.lagace.qc at gmail.com
>     <mailto:robert.lagace.qc at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>      >     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.

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/644

Moritz