Changes between Version 67 and Version 68 of GSoC/2020/StartupWindow

Timestamp:

Aug 22, 2020, 11:54:21 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

lindakladivova

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GSoC/2020/StartupWindow

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 **The state of the art BEFORE the start of GSoC:**\\
-Every new GRASS GIS user was always redirected to the Startup screen, where he had to perform several steps (set up a grass database, location, and mapset). It was quite confusing without knowing what each of these elements actually means. So It can happen that a new potential (satisfied) user could give up working with this software right at the beginning (I speak from my own experience). And that's a shame because GRASS GIS offers a lot of great features! Before GSoC the main role was played by the Startup screen and after somewhat confusing setup the GRASS was launched on the Layers tab. At this point, the Data Catalog only allowed to work with layers and did not allow to manage mapsets and locations. It also does not allow adding more than one database.
+Every new GRASS GIS user was always redirected to the Startup screen, where he had to perform several steps (set up a database, location, and mapset). It was quite confusing without knowing what each of these elements actually means. So It can happen that a new potentially satisfied user could give up working with this software right at the beginning (I speak from my own experience). And that's a shame because GRASS GIS offers a lot of great features! Before GSoC, the main role was played by the Startup screen and after somewhat confusing setup the GRASS was launched on the Layers tab. At this point, the Data Catalog only allowed to work with layers and did not allow to manage mapsets and locations. It also does not allow adding more than one database.
 
 **The state of the art AFTER GSoC:**\\
-First, let's focus on the first important utility, and that is the Location Wizard. This guide for creating a new location has changed quite a lot. The first page has been streamlined and somewhat misleading names of the individual attributes have also been changed. Similarly, the next page, originally named "Choose method for creating a new location", is now much more clearly defined with the new name "Select Coordinate Reference System (CRS)". CRS can be newly specified using WKT string. However, the biggest change has affected the page with the original name "Choose EPSG Code", now "Select CRS from list". This window newly supports dynamic search as well as a hyperlink to EPSG pages, which changes dynamically according to the filter set by user.
+First, let's focus on the first important utility, and that is the Location Wizard. This guide for creating a new location has changed quite a lot. The first page has been streamlined and somewhat misleading names of the individual attributes have also been changed. Similarly, the next page, originally named "Choose method for creating a new location", is now much more clearly defined with the new name "Select Coordinate Reference System (CRS)". CRS can be newly specified using WKT string. However, the biggest change has affected the page with the original name "Choose EPSG Code", now "Select CRS from list". This window newly supports dynamic search as well as a hyperlink to EPSG pages, which changes dynamically according to the filter set by the user.
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+The second thing that has undergone a big change is the very start of GRASS. GRASS GIS no longer uses the Startup screen. The default tab in GUI is now the Data tab which contains the Data Catalog. For the first-time user, GRASS is launched in the Demolocation "world_latlong_wgs84" which should be an example of the correct use of the PERMANENT mapset and other user-created mapsets.
+If you are not a first-time user, Data Catalog is opened in the last used mapset.