[GRASS-user] Mini project 2023: Week 5: Improving Single-Window GUI user experience

[Linda Kladivová]

Hello guys,




I am sending my fifth report regarding the GRASS mini-project which is also 
available here: [1].




1) What did I complete this week?
The PR ​(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2682)[2] implementing the 
Export history button in the Console pane was merged. 




The first part of the week I worked on PR [3] which adds an input prompt 
sign to the command prompt widget. However, although it was our suggestion 
from ​(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/2585)[4], the intervention into
the command prompt showed programmatically as very unfortunate - it was 
really hard to cover all cases of how the text in the command prompt could 
be managed. So, we decided to implement the task differently by showing a 
hint in the case that the command prompt is not focused. I think it is an 
even more user-friendly solution. It is already prepared for merging (see ​
(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2728)[5]). 





Meanwhile, I worked on adding "isDocked" parameter to workspace handling in 
the PR ​(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2667)[6] dealing with dock/
undock map display functionality. It was the thing I forget to consider. 
However, the workspace issue revealed an error in ​
(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2667)[6] related to closing undocked 
map display frame. 





2) What am I going to achieve for next week? 

The goal for the next week is to merge both - [5] and [6]. Then I plan to 
create a PR on the Console reorganization according to the suggestion in ​
(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/2585)[4]. 





3) Is there any blocking issue?


There is one blocking error in [6] related to the closing of undocked map 
display frame (wrapped C/C++ object of type MapPageFrame has been deleted). 
I have already spent several hours to fix it but unsuccessfully. I will 
probably put it off now and go back later, with more ideas in my mind. 





Have a nice week,





Linda





[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/
ImprovingSingleWindowUX
(https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/ImprovingSingleWindowUX)

[2] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2682
(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2682)

[3] ​(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2153)https://github.com/OSGeo/
grass/pull/2718(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2682)

[4] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/2585
(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/2585)

[5] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2728
(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2728)

[6] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2667
(https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2667)
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