[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2042: wxgui: no more menu access to r.in.gdal / v.in.ogr

#2042: wxgui: no more menu access to r.in.gdal / v.in.ogr
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  Reporter: mlennert | Owner: grass-dev@…
      Type: defect | Status: new
  Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: wxGUI | Version: svn-trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: r.in.gdal, v.in.ogr, gui
       CPU: Unspecified | Platform: Unspecified
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Comment (by marisn):

AAAGH! It's the end of 2016 and GRASS continues its death march towards
"let's dumb it down to not confuse beginners and thus lose the only reason
why we are still relevant". If there are no "advanced" features then
"beginners" do not see any reason why to use GRASS not QGIS (and I have to
agree with it). If you want to see how it will end, just take a look at
Firefox.

I just had to explain to a QGIS user why he can not find in GRASS
"snapping tolerance" setting he had been using in QGIS. Reason - you must
belong to the secret society who passes its secrets only to chosen ones
and type --ui in that black window to get a dialog with all options not an
useless dumbed down version where is not possible to change any of not-so-
common properties under e.g. button "advanced". (Yes, v.in.ogr snapping
setting is exposed to QGIS users and, as far as I know, nobody has died
because of it)

I do not thing that users who get confused by "Launch advanced interface"
button are the target audience of GRASS GIS.

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