Linda Kladivova
Linda Kladivova studies the second year of Ph.D. at Czech Technical University in Prague. Her coding experience with GRASS software started during the Google Summer of Code 2020 (https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2020/StartupWindow). Since then she has been a regular contributor to GRASS GUI. Particularly she worked on two other projects - GSoC in 2021 (https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2021/SingleWindowLayout) and the GRASS mini-project in 2022 (https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment/RedesigningStatusbar).
Sessions
Aside from many new features, GRASS GIS 8 brings an improved graphical user interface focused on better user experience. Based on a broad community discussion involving several surveys and test sessions, we developed a new startup mechanism helping the users understand the data hierarchy and guiding them in their first steps. In addition, our surveys helped to identify a number of opportunities for improvements, including a need for a Single-Window mode that could fully replace the traditional Multi-Window GUI that has been in GRASS since the first GUI version in 1999. Therefore, during the GSoC 2021 project, the first steps towards the Single-Window GUI were established, eventually leading to the friedlier GRASS GUI in version 8.2. Come and listen to the presentation describing how a community-driven approach helped to steer the development direction of the GRASS graphical user interface to satisfy both GIS beginners and advanced users. You can also look forward to the brand-new screenshots of the GUI in version 8.2 that might eventually inspire you to try GRASS on your own.