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

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Le 30/11/2015 11:57, Radim Blazek a écrit :
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Patrick Giraudoux
> <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
>>> I have just installed QGIS Lyon with GRASS 6.4.4 (standalone), on Windows
>>> 7,  but cannot get the usual GRASS toolbar (I just have "open the GRASS
>>> tools" and "set de current region" icons. This makes me unable to display
>>> GRASS rasters or vectors into QGIS. However, in earlier projects where GRASS
>>> objects were already displayed in QGIS, I get them displayed OK as layers...
>>>
>>> Any idea about how to proceed to get access to the commands "Add a raster
>>> layer from GRASS" or "Add a vector layer from GRASS"?
>> Sorry to respond to myself, but I have found a solution, and I thought it
>> may help other users. There are no longer icons to display GRASS
>> raster/vector objects in a tool bar, but the user must use the QGIS browser
>> panel ("explorateur" in French) to fetch the appropriate file in the
>> relevant GRASS project (see
>> https://www.qgis.org/fr/site/forusers/visualchangelog212/index.html#plugins).
> It is also described in the documentation:
> http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/grass_integration/grass_integration.html
>
>> 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
>
> Radim
>

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.

However do not worry, I am an adaptable person and will get used to it 
too... The work done with the plugin and the possibilities with 
QGIS-GRASS  are fantastic... Thanks a lot.

Patrick