[Qgis-psc] GRASS work progress

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Radim


I wanted to make a small request / suggestion too about the GRASS implementation in QGIS. Currently when you start QGIS compiled with GRASS (in my case 6.4 on fedora), you get a pop up at the start of QGIS asking you if you want to set GISBASE. No matter what I set there I can’t get it to recognise my GRASS. That is probably just me being dumb, but my problem is more about the popup itself - it blocks QGIS from starting which ruins e.g. tests which need to run headless and I think it isn’t a great user experience as there is no help to tell you how to locate GISBASE. What about using a QgsMessageBar or some other non-blocking technique for alerting the user to the fact that their GISBASE is not found, and providing some help on what the appropriate setting should be?

Regards

Tim


> On 13 Sep 2015, at 09:06, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com <mailto:radim.blazek at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net <mailto:richard at duif.net>> wrote:
>> On 12-09-15 14:52, Radim Blazek wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
>>>> All seems to go very well:
>>>> http://www.gissula.eu/qgis-grass-plugin-crowdfunding/progress.html <http://www.gissula.eu/qgis-grass-plugin-crowdfunding/progress.html>
>>>> Only editing is still to be completed, but almost all the rest is done.
>>> 
>>> I want to finish the upgrade for the 2.12 as I promised, i.e. the 26th
>>> of September
>>> according to https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html <https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html>.
>> 
>> Good work and nice way of working, Radim.
>> Both the crowdfunding and your way of describing the progress.
> 
> Thanks Richard.
> 
>> Maybe anybody volunteering to write some small news article about this
>> work (and Radim) on the qgis blog?
> 
> Better to wait with more publicity until the work is completed, I mean
> all the intended features are there (2.12 feature freeze).
> 
> Radim
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Tim Sutton
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