GRASS GUI

Overview

A nice summary of the progress to date, written by Jachym Cepicky:

• Part 1
• Part 2

Mailing List

• Things are discussed here

Graphical toolkit choice

• WxWidgets Compared To Other Toolkits
• GUI Toolkits for The X Window System

Sourceforge.net statistics

• Projects using Python as programming language: 6217
• Projects using GTK+: 1328
• Projects using GTK+ graphical library and Python programming language: 348
• Projects using GTK+ graphical library and Python programming language and OpenGL: 7
• Projects using wxWidgets: 880
• Projects using wxWidgets graphical library and Python programming language: 360
• Projects using wxWidgets graphical library and Python programming language and OpenGL: 4

Tcl/Tk GUI

Screenshots: http://grass.itc.it/grass61/screenshots/index.php

Draft GUI design specifications

• See attached file

Summary of 2005 discussions on next generation UI for GRASS

• Attached file gives a distillation of several months of emails on the GRASS developers list. It includes a series of desired design features and specifications, along with supporting quotes.

Compiled emails from 2005 discussions on next generation UI for GRASS

• Attached file compiles all (or all that I could find) of the late 2005 emails on the GRASS developers list discussing proposed specifications for a next generation GRASS GUI. It is a series of rtm files that group the discussions according to a series of topics.