Web-based GUI for GRASS GIS

Here should go a detailed and systematic description of possible implementations of web-based GUI for GRASS GIS as discussed for GSoC 2014 in ​GRASS-dev GSoC 2014: GRAS GIS Web UI (​nabble, ​gmane).

Wt

• See wiki:GSoC/2014#Web-basedGUIforGRASSGIS

GTK+ Broadway

Starts its own graphical session which instead of rendering on screen (as X server would do) renders HTML5.

Pros:

• No need to write any GUI code, so there is no duplication and no additional maintenance

Cons:

• Not (yet?) available for wxPython (done for GTK+, works with wxWidgets)
• Not possible to include web technologies (WebGL), tools (e.g. IPython Notebook) and JS libraries (d3)
• 3D view (nviz) in GUI will not work (G7:m.nviz.image might)

Others:

• Still needs file management to be implemented.

Links:

• ​https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html
• ​http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2013/04/03/more-gtk-in-the-cloud/
• ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8eo4RlPw4

rollapp.com

Cons:

• Although it uses free and open source, the solution itself is proprietary (which completely disqualifies it here but it can serve as an inspiration)