[GRASS-user] Some suggestions

[M S]

Just a users's opinion for what it is worth...  =D

I really like the GUI setup for GRASS under GIS.M.  It is very intuitive and
the non-modal windows are *awesome*.  truely lets one multi-task while
GRASSing.    Great improvement over the previous GUI.  that output manager
is sweet too!  Plus the menus can be undocked.  Compariing to it to that
*other* software company that is so prevalent in the US, GRASS is more
logically organized (even for those of us across the great blue sea! =D  in
their "toolbox" there are so many eye-candy widgets that one often finds
them self searching for the tool in the "help" because it takes so much time
to root throgh the unclearly organized "toolbox".

GRASS is wonderful.  I have been using it for many years now learning and
light use.  Now that I am using it extensively I have really come to
appreciate the rich features, great interface and reliability.

All the developers have really built a great GIS.   Keep up the great work.
It is enjoyed by many.

Mark

On 6/5/07, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Michael Barton wrote:
> >
> > That said, it could be convenient to attach/dock a map display to the
> > layer manager, in order to move them around together. I'm looking into
> > a way to do that. May or may not be possible.
>
> if this is possible, it would make both camps happy.
>
> another way too gee-whiz eye candy solution is a pop-down semi-
> transparent heads-up-display overlay in the display window. ;)
>
> > This is not referring to the properties dialogs for each GRASS
> > command. These are unavoidable if you want to run the command, but can
> > be closed to clean up the screen. Press OK instead of Apply and the
> > window goes away. Grouping them into a single MDI wouldn't make them
> > any easier to work with or less cluttered. Hamish has suggested making
> > them modal by default, with the option of keeping them open if you
> > want via a checkbox. This sort of forces you to keep your screen clean
> > unless you really want to do otherwise.
>
> Ah, I didn't know about [Ok] and [Apply] for the module GUIs. That's a
> lot clearer than a "keep alive" checkbox, and obviates the need.
> Generally I think that Apply buttons are not that useful, but they could
> do a very nice job here.
>
>
>
> Hamish
>
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