[GRASS5] closing down GRASS cleanly
Markus Neteler
neteler at itc.it
Wed Sep 17 05:05:47 EDT 2003
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:50:06PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
> > > > However, closing tcltkgrass menu is a good idea as it
> > > > is really useless outside a GRASS session.
> > >
> > > Huh? tcltkgrass will continue to work after the GRASS session has
> > > terminated.
> >
> > Huh - but is that desired? Looks like a left-over menu (to me).
>
> I can imagine that some users might have no interest in using the
> shell. In fact, I'm not entirely sure why "grass5 -tcltk" even spawns
> a shell. It would seem more logical to have -text spawn a shell, and
> -tcltk to just spawn tcltkgrass, possibly with a -both option if you
> actually want both.
OK, this sounds reasonable - I was thinking too much in the un*x way.
Markus
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