[Qgis-user] Icons of GRASS tool do not display

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Le 01/12/2015 09:41, Radim Blazek a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Patrick Giraudoux
> <patrick.giraudoux at univ->>> Must admit I prefer the straight solution
> of earlier versions, where a
>>>> dialog box permitted easy access to the GRASS mapset that was opened from
>>>> icons. Anyway, no choice in the latest version as long as I understand...
>>>> Suppose there has been good reasons to do so and that I will discover
>>>> them
>>>> later :-)
>>> The icons and dialogs were removed after discussion in mailing list
>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2015-May/037827.html
>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2015-May/037828.html
>>> There were no voices asking to keep the dialogs.
>>>
>>> I think that using the browser to add layers is generally accepted and
>>> preferred. Try to count clicks to add a layer
>>> - dialog: 1 click to open dialog, 1 click to trigger combo box drop
>>> down, 1 click to select layer, 1 click to add layer = 4 clicks
>>> - browser: 1 double click on the layer
>>>
>> Theoretically yes, when the file of interest is displayed in the browser.
>> Practically, the many clicks are now in the browser through the hierarchical
>> structure of the user folders to find out the place where the mapset of
>> interest is ;-). Can take a while.
> I know, but usually you are working in one mapset, so you have to go
> to the mapset just once, then it remains ready for next layer while
> the number of clicks with the dialog is always 4. +2 clicks if you
> want to add a layer from another mapset. The filter in the browser is
> another advantage.
>
> Radim
>

Indeed. Agreed.

Cheers,

Patrick