Roy,
I guess you haven't been following quite all of this discussion.
You can still run all module commands in GRASS from any terminal. You
can TYPE d* commands into the command line interface of the GUI and
have the resulting maps displayed in the GUI display canvas. You can
also type the d.* commands into any xterminal and have grass maps
saved as graphic files to view. These can be viewed automatically with
free image viewers (like d.mon did) as Glynn has shown. The old,
primitive, INTERACTIVE xterminal behavior is all that has been
dropped. For interactive use, there is a much more sophisticated
interface that exists now--that is, you can do a lot more interaction
than you could do before.
Besides simply not being GRASS 4 or 5 (which are still available to be
run), what functionality are you missing?
Michael
On Dec 4, 2009, at 4:47 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:29:46 +0000
From: Roy Sanderson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] grass70 and display monitor
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <1259915386.16719.126.ca...@clarinet>
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Dear Glynn
I have been very surprised by the discussion on the Grass user lists
explaining the end of the d.mon and associated d.rast, d.vect commands
in the new Grass 7 version. I'd naively assumed that they were a
permanent feature of the Grass environment. From what I understand,
their phasing out is primarily because to retain them would impose
considerable technical challenges in a new Gui environment, would not
match the philosophy behind Gui interfaces, and provide little real
benefit.
My concern is simply that of an end-user, administering a small
network
of Ubuntu PCs running Grass, because I have found it a considerable
struggle to persuade existing users to upgrade to each new version of
Grass. The proposed changes will undoubtedly make Grass more
appealing
to new users, but long-term users will drag their feet. I notice that
even Microsoft is learning the hard way the risks of changing the user
interface too radically in an upgrade.
As way of contrast, R has kept a high degree of consistency of the
interface for each new version, such that existing users have no
problems when upgrading, but its command-line only environment causes
massive barriers for new users who are only familiar with Gui
software.
Is Grass able to make some sort of compromise between improving the
interface to make it more appealing to new users, whilst bringing its
existing users with it?
Best wishes
Roy
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Roy Sanderson
Institute for Research on Environment & Sustainability
Devonshire Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
[email protected]
0191 246 4835
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