[GRASS-user] First impressions and bug reports / wishlist

[Alexandre Leroux]

Hi,

I took some time to discover GRASS. It sure looks powerful, but I find 
the GUI rather repulsing. Ease of use might not be important to 
power-users but it is to new users and amateurs. I guess that's where 
QGIS should come to the rescue :-)

I encountered a bug and would have some feature requests (GRASS 6.0.2). 
Shall I search and submit those on:
http://grass.itc.it/bugtracking/bugreport.html
Is that what's preferred by the developers?

To my surprise, I haven't seen in the wish list allowing Locations to be 
created based on one geocoded file instead of manually defining a 
location. There is also no use of the right-click button, either on the 
item list or on the display. Contextual menus would be welcomed :-) Also 
surprising is the zoom/pan capabilities buried in menus instead of 
working right away on the display. I'm not sharing this as 
discontentment, I just want GRASS to improve :-)

Cheers,

Alex
-- 
Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
Division de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
Environmental Emergency Response Division
alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca