http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/rviz
http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/ROS%20GUI
This is a fairly big change to the code. The internal plugin API is changed and the Python API will be different (when I get it implemented). The GUI appears and behaves mostly the same as the wx version, most of the differences coming from the differences in style between wx and Qt and not from intentional changes. For a list of major changes, see
visualization_experimental/ChangeList.
An early but fairly complete, version of the new code is available in the temporary "
visualization_experimental" stack, which works with ROS Electric. It is available in the ros-electric-visualization-experimental debian package. This version does not have python support implemented yet, but all the built-in display types, tools, and view controllers work. I encourage rviz users to try the new version (called rviz_qt for now) before Fuerte so I can fix bugs and make the transition as smooth as possible.