Using the rqt_gui and rqt plugins

Since ROS Fuerte, the rx applications or tools are deprecated, and we should instead use the rqt nodes. They are basically the same, and only a few of them incorporate small updates, bug fixes, and new features. The following table shows the equivalences for the tools shown in this chapter (the ROS hydro rqt tool and the one it replaces from previous ROS distributions):

ROS hydro rqt tool	Replaces (ROS fuerte or before)
rqt_console and rqt_logger_level	rxconsole
rqt_graph	rxgraph
rqt_reconfigure rqt_reconfigure	dynamic_reconfigure reconfigure_gui
rqt_plot	rxplot
rqt_image_view	image_view
rqt_bag	rxbag

In ROS hydro, there are even more standalone plugins, such as a shell (rqt_shell), a topic publisher (rqt_publisher), a message type viewer (rqt_msg), and much more (the most important ones have been covered in this chapter). Even rqt_viz is a plugin, which replaces rviz, and can also be integrated into the new rqt_gui interface...