Hi all, 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.
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... my 2 cents Vero Vero El dom., 6 sept. 2020 a las 16:56, Steven Pawley (<[email protected]>) escribió: > Hi Vaclav, > > Thanks for this. My 2c is that the terminal should be made as optional > because it can definitely be confusing and intimidating/off-putting for new > users. Apologies if I’ve confused some of the options but here are my > thoughts regarding the start-up options. > > Unfortunately (in terms of complexity) option 5 would my preference. I > like what it inherits from option 4, in that “grass —text” would always > start with a terminal and just “grass” will *always* opens the full desktop > application/GUI. > > However, once in the GUI, ideally you would be able to launch a terminal > session from a menu option, e.g. a bit like Rstudio or VScode. This is > obviously how you want to launch an R or Jupyter session, and it was be > unfortunate to have to exit GRASS and restart a session with a terminal > just to do this. Also, what happens when the GRASS GUI crashes and you are > not running a terminal? One of the aspects that I really like about GRASS > is that even if any particular component of the application, like the GUI > crashes, the session continues and modules/scripts keep on running, so > everything is usually recoverable. > > If the implementation of option (5) is problematic, then I guess mixing > the startup options by “grass —gui —shell” to open both the GUI and a > terminal (like currently) would be possible although it is a bit cumbersome > for > all of the people who routinely punch GRASS commands into the terminal etc. > > Steve > > > On Sep 5, 2020, at 9:05 PM, Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> wrote: > > 4. Make the shell start only in the text mode (grass --text) or with a new > additional option (--shell), i.e., you get it, only when you actually ask > for it. In other words, with --text, GRASS GIS would behave more like R or > Octave, without that (with --gui), it would behave more like QGIS or any > other GUI application. (This includes the no terminal from desktop > launchers from option 2.) > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
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