Plotting/GUI CLI should they be separate or combined?

We need to figure out whether we need two CLI for plotting and for GUI handling.

I am starting to more advocate one CLI for both.

sgui ase
sgui matplotlib/plot
sgui plotly

something like this.

Since we are in doubt of the placement of individual functionality, users will without a doubt also!! 😃

Please chip in here! 😉 @pfebrer96 @jonaslb

_Originally posted by @zerothi in https://github.com/zerothi/sisl/pull/221#discussion_r487800251_

[zerothi]

Yes, I want to do that. But you should just assume you get passed an argument parser where you create your own sub-command.

[zerothi]

entry -> prepare -> draw -> postprocess (or deprepare or something) Sometimes it may be nice to close files, delete temporary stuff or something else. 😃

Hahah ok, I thought siles automatically closed the file handle after you read.

Yeah, most do, but some (the fortran binary files) needs to be closed somewhat manually (in some cases).

Exactly, it is to clarify order of execution. In your case it isn’t exactly clear which order things should be done in. I think my naming is a bit clearer. I don’t really mind the wording, I would just like it to be clear which order they are intended.

My question was about the doc line of prepare:

“”" Prepare plots, could be reading data, or creating a figure or …“”"

What does it mean “creating a figure” here?

Yeah, I don’t know 😉