[GRASS5] New initialization code

GRASS grass at geni.knu.ac.kr
Tue Nov 28 13:03:24 EST 2000


>From neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de Wed Nov 29 02:00:42 2000
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:57:51PM +0900, GRASS wrote:
> > From: Andreas Lange <Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de>
> > >
> > > Hi Justin,
> > >
> > > i can not test this right now.
> > > But i think that the grass5 -text will work. But it will further confuse
> > > users if they just issue grass5 and they get windows with no useful
> > > information popping up. 
> > > We must change all the documentation, so that i think that it will be
> > > simpler to keep the default as it is. In my eyes grass5 -tclwhatever for
> > > the new and grass5 (=grass5 -text) for the old behaviour will be simpler
> > > to recognize/learn. 
> > >
> > > On my linux installation i get the same error message that Eric
> > > describes. See attached error.txt. 
> > > Sorry, i am in a hurry now.
> > >
> > > cu,
> > >
> > > Andreas 
> > >
> > > Justin Hickey wrote:
> > > > I assume that the behaviour is the same as before if you use "grass5
> > > > -text"? If not, then could you please indicate what the new behaviour
> > > > is? I didn't change how tcltkgrass works from the command line so it
> > > > should be the same if you start with the old text interface.
> > > > 
> > >
> > 
> > I fully agree to this. I personally dislike GUI system, it's too hard to use.
> > moving mouse, focusing pointer, clicking...
> > Anyway, to be consistent it would be better to start with text mode w/o flag.
> > 
> > Justin, you told me that a noninteractive startup, which i've added, should
> > be consistent.  I think it's the same problem.
>
> Hi all,
>
> it seems to become a more general discussion. From the *average* user's
> view I am sure that gui startup is appreciated. GRASS is looking very oldish
> if starting with text window. Even mouse selecting of the locations (I use
> several in parallel) is very convenient. But, I don't use GUI within GRASS.
> Here I prefer to work command line.
>
> A proposal:  
> We keep the graphical startup as default, *but*, if the users starts:
>   grass5 -text
> this is stored as new default in .grassrc5. Next time simply
>   grass5 
> would start GRASS in *text* mode. Of course the new default would be 
> overridden if  
>   grass5 -tcltk
> was started. Like that only once the user's preference has to be set,
> and all can feel happy :-)
> What about this idea as a compromise (if it's feasible, hi Justin)?
>
> Markus
>

Happy proposal :-)

Huidae Cho

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