#2898: GUI improvments for long list of mapsets or long mapset names (Location /
Mapset selection)
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Reporter: sbl | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.4
Component: wxGUI | Version: unspecified
Keywords: | CPU: Unspecified
Platform: All |
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In order to be able handle a long list of mapsets or long mapset names
better in the GUI startup (location / mapset selection) two enhancements
might be useful:
1) For long lists of mapsets in shared GRASS GIS DBs it would be nice if
one could filter the list of mapsets to "mapsets owned by me" (e.g. using
a tickbox), as these are the only ones the user technically can use for
working anyway...
2) If one has long mapset names it would be an advantage if the user was
able to change the distribution of horizontal space used for the "mapset
box" and the "locations box", meaning, that the user can make the mapset
box wider if the location contains mapsets with longer names...
#2898: GUI improvments for long list of mapsets or long mapset names (Location /
Mapset selection)
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Reporter: sbl | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.4
Component: wxGUI | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords:
CPU: Unspecified | Platform: All
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Comment (by annakrat):
Replying to [ticket:2898 sbl]:
> In order to be able handle a long list of mapsets or long mapset names
better in the GUI startup (location / mapset selection) two enhancements
might be useful:
> 2) If one has long mapset names it would be an advantage if the user was
able to change the distribution of horizontal space used for the "mapset
box" and the "locations box", meaning, that the user can make the mapset
box wider if the location contains mapsets with longer names...
>
You can already stretch the window horizontally and the boxes stretch as
well. This behavior seems good enough for me.
#2898: GUI improvments for long list of mapsets or long mapset names (Location /
Mapset selection)
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Reporter: sbl | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.4
Component: wxGUI | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords:
CPU: Unspecified | Platform: All
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Comment (by sbl):
> You can already stretch the window horizontally and the boxes stretch as
well. This behavior seems good enough for me.
Yes, this seems to be no issue on a high resolution screen. On a low
resolution screen (remote desktop window (VNC)) it was impossible to
distinguish the mapsets with relatively long names / prefixes. I
understand that this is probably too much of an edge case and with a high
bandwidth I can likly get around this by requesting a connection with a
higher resolution. So, sorry for not double checking on a local
installation...
As for the filtering part: The inaccessible mapsets are already greyed
out. Those where I am not the owner cannot even be selected. In locations
with many mapsets (from different users) it would make the mapset
selection more convenient (and probably lead to less confusion among less
experienced users) if esp. the mapsets from other users, could be filtered
from the list...