[GRASS5] setting the initial region

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Mon Jan 31 17:23:53 EST 2005


On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:31:43PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Mark P. Line writes:
>  > Absolutely. What GRASS has always needed is an integrated, well-designed
>  > and portable GUI front-end from whole cloth (read: without necessarily
>  > duplicating the legacy user interface architecture and metaphors of
>  > command-line GRASS) that allows command-line GRASS to disappear completely
>  > from the user's view into its proper role as a back-end. I'm seeing some
>  > approaches to that in the works as we speak (although I haven't looked at
>  > them closely enough to have an opinion about them), and I think that's
>  > where usability concerns should be addressed.
> 
> In other words, give up on the existing GRASS user interface, and
> instead treat GRASS as a toolset?  Sign me up!  Who is working on
> this??  Point me to them, please!!

A first approach on your local machine might be:
rm -rf display/

... then the core functionality remains :-)

Remembering the "GRASS server" from Radim, we are not that far.
Contributions are always welcome.

Cheers

 Markus




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