[GRASS-user] Graphic monitor displays suggestion

[Hamish]

Camilo Alcantara wrote:
> 
> Currently I am using the last version of cygwin and grass6.2, I have
> been user of GRASS since 1997. In the last times I found impressive
> improvements on the graphic interfaces. In this version I found a new
> graphic map monitor, called now "Map Display", with a bunch of icons
> with predefined funcions on display and zooming, at the same time i
> can open the console and run the " d.mon" command and use the old
> fashioned monitor graphics display. Regarding the new graphic display,
> it is all nice, but I found it slower than the former graphic
> interface, I would to suggest you to keep the flexibility of the
> former monitors. In this new one i can not run automated routines on
> displaying and zooming maps. At the same time I think it is a bad idea
> to maintain both graphic interfaces. At the end I found your latest
> development nice but i dropped it because of the reasons above
> described.


with luck the new wxPython GUI in development will allow both.

many of the devels are dedicated command line addicts, so I wouldn't
worry too much about scripting functionality going away. AFAIU the new
GUIs are really just a giant script themselves.



Hamish