[GRASS-dev] Make terminal window optional?

[Vaclav Petras]

Hi Vero,

I think the question is if a specific workflow is what we are aiming for or
if anything that gets users to a terminal+GUI combo is good as long as
there is not much work for the user. The issue is that some options are
just much more difficult to implement then the others. Or, in other words,
the question is what is a sufficient solution.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 7:10 PM Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I am ok with not having the terminal when starting grass from an icon, but
> as Steven, I'd like to have a button to still be able to open the terminal
> from the GUI. For example, next to the icon for the simple Pyhton editor in
> the menu bar.
>

Would you still want to have that button there even if that means that it
won't be as simple as "Open integrated Python editor" from a user point of
view because there will need to be some configuration involved? Or in other
words, even if there is a default, it won't work for some people. Is that
still worth it? (See also my email to Steven Pawley for additional details
on this.)

Additionally, as I mentioned in the original post, it seems to me (and I
would be happy to be wrong on this) that we might not be able to close some
of the terminals. The issue is that we basically need access to the shell
started there which might be possible. This might be doable by developing a
mechanism to tell GUI about the shell's PID from the shell itself (now we
do something like that but are driving that from Python). In any case, it
would partially rely on the user configuring it properly (because of the
need for configuration).

One possible way of this is saying we don't care about the prompt, history,
and invalid session in this terminal once the main process finishes.


> In my case, I teach Grass from the terminal mostly and we use the gui to
> display results and such. The workflow would then change to open a
> terminal, call grass --text and then call the GUI with
> g.gui... I think that might get even more confusing to students...
>

So what about the option 2 then? You open a terminal, type `grass`, hit
Enter, and by default you get the shell (because you are in an interactive
terminal - that can be detected) and the GUI starts, i.e., exactly what
happens now.

Vaclav
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