[GRASS5] Darwin Pre1 gtty stty errors

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:00:18AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
[...]
> > > BTW, this doesn't really apply to d.colors, which is almost entirely
> > > interface.
> > 
> > Probably d.colors will disappear eventually.  24bit displays are pretty
> > common...
> 
> That doesn't really relate to the issue of assigning colours to raster
> maps. A raster cell stores either a discrete category or scalar value,
> not a colour. Regardless of display hardware, colour tables
> ("palettes") are still an essential part of the process, so a means to
> edit them is still necessary.
> 
> It seems more likely that d.colors would simply be replaced with a GUI
> version. It doesn't seem likely that anyone would want to
> interactively edit colour tables without being able to see the results
> (which implies running XDRIVER, which implies being able to run a GUI
> tool).

It seems that a GUI (tcl/tk) version is already present:
  src/tcltkgrass/todo/r.colortool
It offers RGB sliders etc. Only it needs a bit of update... Volunteers?

Cheers

 Markus