[GRASS-dev] Week 12 report: Creation of a new GRASS GIS startup mechanism

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Hello Community,

I am sending my last weekly report for Week 12 (August 17-August 23). The report can also be found in the project wiki: https://trac.osgeo.org/…dow . Next week, a more detailed final report will be added to this page including the state of the art before GSoC, the state after GSoC as well as the comprehensive comparison of the old and new GRASS GIS startup mechanism using several screenshots.

1) What did I complete this week?

I finished implementing three very important PRs. Firstly, I aimed at the start in Demo Location (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/862, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/868). Now, when starting GRASS GIS the startup screen can be skipped. It happens in two cases - either when a user is a first-time user (then the Demo Location with startup mapset is offered) or the last used mapset is valid. In those cases, we can directly jump into GRASS GIS particularly to the Data Catalog which is now the core of the whole software. Secondly, I made checking functions that check mapsets, locations and GRASS databases when renaming and deleting in Data Catalog (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/801, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/904). It is not allowed to delete current database, location, and mapset, permanent mapset, mapset owned by a different user, or mapset which is “in use”. Thirdly, we needed to have an option on how to remove the lock (how to open up mapsets “in use”). When switching to the mapset that is “in use”, we can select if we want to stay in the current mapset or switch to selected mapset. So, we can force the removal of the lock and switch to the mapset anyway (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/898, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/906). Furthermore, I corrected the bug when multiple grass databases context menu shows Delete locations (see ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/913, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/914).

Currently, there are two PRs which are almost done:

This PR solves the case when mapset/location is created from menu.

Currently, we can rename the map by selecting it and clicking at it again, which opens an editing window (like in any file manager). This should work also for mapsets and locations. It should take into account if the restricted mode is on or off. The second thing is that in Data Catalog when we select a map in other mapset and click on it a second time to open editing window, we can rename it even when the restricted mode is on. This should not be permitted.

2) What am I going to achieve for next week?

I am gonna write the final report that will sum up STATE BEFORE GSoC 2020 and STATE AFTER GSoC 2020. The main part of the work is done, but there are a few things that are still ahead of us. I will mention them in the Final Report.

3) Is there any blocking issue?
No, it is not.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Regards,

Linda Kladivova