[Freegis-list] GRASS still quite far from usable

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all.
It would be easy to overlook such critiques, but I think there is an element 
of truth we should take seriously. I recently introduced FreeGIS stuff to 
people with average to good experience with proprietary GIS, but no idea 
about free software. In short: everybody liked qgis, nobody felt very 
confortable with grass (the oldest among them recalled their early days with 
ArcInfo...).
My view: the good way to go is to seamlessly integrate QGIS as a frontend to 
GRASS. Older users feel more confortable with the command line and the tcltk 
menus, but new ones are scared by these.
All the best.
pc

At 11:15, lunedì 12 settembre 2005, Ben Discoe has probably written:
>
> Hi Markus,
>
> This evening, i tried once again to run GRASS 6.0.  This time, i was able
> to get it to run far enough to display the "GRASS 6.0.0 GIS Manager"
> window.
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