[GRASS-dev] GIF -> PNG

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:26:50PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > > > For the record, TclTk doesn't like PNG. e.g. the NVIZ help browser
> > > > won't load PNG help graphics in the nviz man pages.
> > >
> > > Cool :-(
> > > We should change the NVIZ help browser to the standard HTML browser.
> > > The limited tcltk based browser isn't that fancy at all.
> ..
> > Done (startup GUI) & done (nviz). Also for 6.2-release branch.
> > Any other places?
> 
> $ grep -rI help.tcl * | grep -v locale/po | cut -f1 -d: | uniq
> 
> No, only those two used it.
> 
> If we remove GRASS's visualization/nviz/html/help.tcl web browser,
> that's 120k less source to distribute!

please go ahead :-) 
 
> > Please test...
> 
> with this set in ~/.grass.bashrc:
>   export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=dillo
> it works fine from NVIZ, but the startup GUI defaults to using klunky
> old mozilla as .grass.bashrc hasn't been sourced yet(?). Also is there
> any way to get rid of or minimize the residual xterm window?

I observed the same problem but have no idea.

Markus