[GRASS-dev] GSoC 2021: Community Bonding Period Report: First steps towards a new GRASS GIS Single-Window GUI

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Hello everyone,

I am sending my bonding period report (May 17 - 6 June), more detailed version can be found in the project wiki: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2021/SingleWindowLayout#Bondingperiodreport .

What did I complete during the Bonding period?

  • Introduced myself in dev list, get in contact with my mentors

After being accepted as a student for GSoC 2021, on May 25 I introduced myself and my project to grass dev lists (1) and set up the video call with my mentors - Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Martin Landa, and Stefan Blumentrath. We met on May 25 and discussed various Single-Window GUI options and their possible shortcomings. We decided to set up a parallel environment determined for the independent Single-Window GUI development.

  • Prepared the wiki page about the project and set up the GitHub repository of the project

I created my project wiki page (2) and added the link to the GSoC 2021 Accepted proposals page (3). I already have GitHub GRASS fork in usage (4) so I only added the link to the GSoC 2021 Accepted proposals page (3), to my wiki page (2) and shared it with my mentors.

  • Two PRs regarding Single-Window GUI already merged

The first PR ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1591 deals with general refactoring. The second one creates the parallel environment where I am gonna further independently develop the Single-Window GUI, see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1604. I also created the PR https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1598 enhancing GRASS for version 8.0. It implements easier switching between mapsets in different locations as we would like GRASS to be as user-friendly as possible. All mentioned PRs are already merged to master. Meantime, I played with wx.aui demo in order to create a prototype of the Single-Window GRASS GUI.

Plans for the next week:

Any suggestions are welcome. :slight_smile:

Best wishes,

Linda Kladivova