[GRASS-dev] Research: Help improve the special mode for first-time users in GRASS GIS

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Hello guys!

We created a new survey that presents the proposal of a special mode for first-time users. :slight_smile:

This proposal was made based on your responses from the survey "Help create a better first-time user experience in GRASS GIS" that we took about one month ago. :slight_smile:

The survey is available here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DNC3HP2

and will be available until Monday 30 November.

Anyone is welcome to take part in the survey - does not matter if a beginner or advanced user of GRASS GIS.

We are looking forward to your responses! :slight_smile:

Best,
Linda Kladivova

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Hi Linda

Thanks for your great work on the new first-time use interface.

(I’d rather not logon to survey monkey, so I’m responding directly)

A point regarding choosing Location is still not clear: After startup and automatically going to the last used Location, if I want to switch to another Location, I go to the “Settings=>GRASS Working Environment” menu. There are now three options that seem to be redundant: "Change working environment:, “Change mapset”, and “Change location and mapset”.

If I choose the first (i.e. g.mapset) then:

  1. The GUI does not reflect this change (original Location stays Bold)

  2. I can no longer load layers from the original mapset, as expected.

  3. but I can not load layers from the new mapset thru the Data panel (“map is in different projection”)

  4. Perhaps this should be removed from the GUI. (A user working on the CLI, running g.mapset, would probably know what she’s doing)

The options “Change location and mapset” or “Change mapset” work as I expect.

But maybe these two could be merged to make these changes more clear, unified.

Another point I notice: The warning “Move or copy mapset isn’t allowed” seems to popup often, when it’s not obvious what I did to cause that warning message.

Kind regards,

Micha

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On 11/26/20 3:25 PM, L.Kladivova wrote:

Hello guys!

We created a new survey that presents the proposal of a special mode for first-time users. :slight_smile:

This proposal was made based on your responses from the survey "Help create a better first-time user experience in GRASS GIS" that we took about one month ago. :slight_smile:

The survey is available here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DNC3HP2

and will be available until Monday 30 November.

Anyone is welcome to take part in the survey - does not matter if a beginner or advanced user of GRASS GIS.

We are looking forward to your responses! :slight_smile:

Best,
Linda Kladivova

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