I got similar expierience with my students during last spring - those, who where able to wrap their minds around GRASS concepts, found old TCL/Tk GUI to be faster and thus better than Wx one on Windows. Some issues they hit then now are solved, still wxgui doesn't perform as good as tcl/tk one (can I select multiple maps at once?). TCL/Tk one has (serious) issues and wx one is way to go, still not yet today.
As a developer I would vote "no" for GUI change. As of ctypes - if it delays release, then also "no" - it has been too long release cycle. There are some other more important problems than ctypes (v.buffer issues etc.). Just my 0.02, Maris. 2010/8/18, Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu>: > While I echo some of Helena's sentiments, I find that (surprisingly) even > some of my students still prefer the TclTk interface of the wxPython one. > That aside, it doesn't bother me if TclTk comes as a default on Mac and > Linux, as this gives people a very smooth transition into the new GUI. They > can easily turn it on as the default when they are ready, but they can start > out with what they are more used to with prior versions. > > For MS Windows there really hasn't been a widely used prior version. So > starting out with wxPython will make future updates easier. > > Beyond this, the Mac version works fine. TclTk nviz is a richer environment > than the embedded wxPython one. The wxPython digitizing module works well. > AFAICT, the rest works fine too. > > Michael > ____________________ > C. Michael Barton > Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity > Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change > Arizona State University > > voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC) > fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) > www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev