[GRASS-user] Grass-GIS 7 first impressions

[Richard Chirgwin]

Paulo - PNG display change works a treat!

I'll file a bug report on the interface issue.

Cheers,
Richard

On 19/10/12 6:25 PM, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
> Concerning the boundaries rendering too thick; under GUI settings 
> (menu: settings - preferences) under the tab 'Map display', you can 
> set the Display driver from Cairo (the default I think) to png. That 
> will bring you back to thinner lines.
>
> I was going to answer that there was an option to disable anti-alias, 
> but I can't find that option. But I guess that is what Cairo display 
> is doing; anti-aliasing the lines.
>
> As for the g.copy problem with selecting multiple maps, I can confirm 
> that doesn't work. Sounds like a bug to me, perhaps you can file a bug 
> report?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paulo
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Richard Chirgwin 
> <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au <mailto:rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     I'm late coming to Grass-GIS 7.0. Partly, this is because I'm also
>     not enthusiastic about migrating all my stuff to a new OS that I
>     don't need.
>
>     However, I decided to run up Debian in a VM and give it a spin.
>
>     My very first observation relates to the Python interface:
>     compared to either the old TCL-TK or the former d.mon X11,
>     boundaries render too thick. It's an aesthetic issue only, but
>     I've worked with people who are willing to fight for their desired
>     "look" practically to the death. Examples are included and I hope
>     they survived intact.
>
>     TCL
>
>
>     Python:
>
>
>     Second, Python selection panels, for modules that should allow
>     multiple selections, work badly.
>
>     For example, g.copy. In the TCL-TK interface, I can use g.copy for
>     multiple copies. OK, I usually use the command-line anyhow, but:
>     If I attempt a second selection in the Python interface pane, it
>     replaces the first selection instead of adding to it.
>
>     I'll continue fooling around with 7.0 and hope nobody -
>     particularly our ever-helpful Markus and the rest of the
>     development team - think I'm being deliberately critical. I've
>     been a user of Grass-GIS for six years now, and it's an
>     indispensable part of my professional life. (I recently saw a
>     company devote two weeks - I am not kidding - of ESRI temporary
>     employee time doing stuff in the GUI that a competent Grass-GIS
>     user would complete in hours, using v.distance and some database
>     updates. The non-GIS manager simply didn't believe my time
>     estimate, even after a demo. "No, we'll spend $4k on what we know.").
>
>     Cheers,
>     Richard C
>
>
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