gz-gui: Plugins

[azeey-test]

Configuration

• os: Ubuntu Noble

Links

• Live
• Source

Process

Step 1 - Instructions work

Step 2 - Images (if there are any) match the result

[Mechazo11]

Interested

[Mechazo11]

• Test enviornment

  CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x, Ram: 32GB @ 3200 Mhz, GPU: RTX 3080
  Clean copy of Ubuntu 24.04 Humble
  ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco full desktop
  

• Summary
  • In my humble opinion this tutorial may need to be presented in context of a more hands-on example. The current version was hard to follow, specially as a newcomer to Gazebo.
  • Add a note stating if built from source, GZ_GUI_PLUGIN_PATH can be set as follows

  cd ~/workspace/src/gz-gui
  export GZ_GUI_PLUGIN_PATH=${HOME}/workspace/src/gz-gui
  echo $GZ_GUI_PLUGIN_PATH
  gz gui -s ImageDisplay

  • Tutorial does not show how to set GZ_GUI_PLUGIN_PATH. Nor it states the user had to change direcotry into src/gz-gui directory before this command would work correctly

• Issues
  • Users needs to change directory to ~/workspace/src/gz-gui. Without this step, invoking any of example commands with gz gui -c prefix throws XMLError error.
  • The tutorial page has multiple \subpage references that leads to nowhere.
  • Commands for Topic Viewer, Topic Stats, Requesters and Responders did not work.

[ahcorde]

gazebosim/gz-gui#638

[azeey]

Created gazebosim/gz-gui#643 for improving the tutorial. Since the functionality works, I'll go ahead and close this.