[Qgis-developer] "official" qgis users?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Il 17/11/2011 17:15, Martin Dobias ha scritto:
>>
>> am I the only one here who thinks that 'first run' wizards (and tips
>> on start) are bad for user experience? :-)
>

Sniff! My nice wizard....ok I'll put it back in the /dev/null where it
came from. Personally I don't like lots of dialogs popping up
everywhere so using the canvas space to show some information at start
really does seem like a nice idea. The idea of helping the user to
orientate themselves when they first start the app is IMHO not a bad
one though. Maybe we could show the users map on first open if the
user has a connection to the internet right there in the canvas. I was
actually speaking to a couple of people at the HF about the idea of
fusing QGIS with the web - by providing a number (extensible list
really) of online datasources that can be seamlessly edited from in
the desktop and taken offline. I know we can do this with WFS & WFS-T
or by accessing postgres on 'the cloud' or various other
techniques...anyway I am hijacking this thread a bit and rambling a
lot so I will go off and kill a poor innocent little wizard now :-)

Regards

Tim

> We are at least two. My suggestion was different: expanding the current menu
> "Subscribe to the mailing list", so the user will run it if and when they
> want.
> All the best.
>
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