[GRASS5] Re: Grass GUI

[Angus Carr]

As an aside, since kde can now be made to run under cygwin (sort of, anyway
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ ), there's now very few platforms that we
can run grass on that can't run kflog.

There is part of me that wants to call for an independant GUI, and part of
me that would really love to see a KDE GUI. The present GUI is not as usable
as we would like it to be. A command-line is a wonderful tool, and I demand
one when I can, but there is something about a command line for data
browsing that can be quite conceptually difficult.

I appreciate the difficulties of getting married and it's impact on a life
of code, though. I've been basically unable to turn on a computer at home,
since I am in front of one all day at work...

Angus.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grass5-admin at grass.itc.it [mailto:grass5-admin at grass.itc.it]On
> Behalf Of Andrea Aime
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:55 AM
> Cc: grass developpers
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Re: Grass GUI
>
>
> Hi everybody,
> I would like to express a whole different idea... I was thinking
> too about the creation of a GUI for GIS software, but something
> more like to an ArcView clone than a combination of the various
> d.* commands. And I was willing to develop it using the KFLog sources
> (www.kflog.de) that seems to have laid down the basic function
> for such a viewer, althought for a very specialized application.
> That is, a KDE application that could enjoy a good integration
> with the other KOffice applications, database access thru QT3
> drivers, effortless printing over PS, PDF and the like using
> KDE printing system, ability to produce integrated documents
> using KChart graphs, DTP thru Scribus and so on. Moreover,
> in my dreams I was thinking about using OGR and GDAL to build
> something more that a GRASS viewer (think about integration with
> PostGIS and MapServer), and the to allow for a couple of plugins
> to launch GRASS commands (integrated Konsole, like Konqueror does,
> or a tcl/tkGrass clone) and finally a digitizing module...
> This would be a big effort but would pay back lots of possibilities
> thru the integration with a richer environment such as KDE: the idea
> is to trade portability a bit to get a wider set functionality.
> The main problem is that I'm going to marry soon and I definitely
> have to time to work on it (more tha caress the idea in the few
> minutes before I get sleeping at night :-)
>
> The beauty of open source is that maybe we can follow both routes,
> and have a truly cross-platform and standard GRASS interface and
> then something more tighly coupled with KDE, but at the same time
> better integrated with other tools
> Just my 1 EuroCent...
> Ciao
> Andrea
>
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:35:06PM +0000, Michel Wurtz wrote:
> > > > 1. Have you considered using WxWindows? This provides a layer on top
> > > > of the platform's native toolkit(s). This may provide better
> > > > integration than a toolkit which is built from scratch on top of the
> > > > platform's lowest-level components.
> > >
> > > Well, I've heard of, but have not studied it in details...
> >
> > I also recommend wxwindows, especially in the wxpython case,
> > because you do not have to use the C++ interface.
> >
> > > > 2. Qt requires C++, which is a disadvantage from a portability
> > > > standpoint. Also, I still don't quite understand
> TrollTech's licensing
> > > > position.
> > >
> > > It's quite complicated, and to be honest, I don't understand all :)
> >
> > Only the version for X11 is Free Software.
> >
> > All other versions are proprietory,
> > you can also get a proprietory version of X11.
> > This pretty much renders QT useless for cross platform Free Software.
> >
> >         Bernhard
> >
> >
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