Re: Release plans for the GUI

[Levente Torok]

Hi Guys,

I dont like the matlab GUI either for the very same reasons.
However, it helps a lot for newbies. Which is a great plus and I
believe we need to be very much aware that
power users begin their life with a product as a newbie.

Instead, if I can push the focus of this discussion toward something,
I would prefer the comparision of the community of octave and R.
I guess the attitude of the two communities are much more alike than
octave and maltab communities.
I would be very happy if someone can give a good analysis on the
reasons why R became so popular versus octave which existes well
before R
it was always free unlike matlab, SAS or SPSS. So why and how did they
took over us?

Lev

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Michael D Godfrey
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/28/2011 04:40 PM, tilas wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to provide a user perspective which seems to be missing here.
>
> Well, actually, your view was missing.  Other users have other
> views.
>
> Speaking as a user, in my environment,  many Matlab users set by default
>  -nodesktop.  The Matlab GUI uses so much time and space that it
> is often not helpful.  I just do not have the time to wait for it to come up
> on the screen.
>
> It appears that the Octave GUI is attempting to meet  a fairly wide range
> of preferences.
>
> In any case, it seems reasonable to get something done and see how
> various users like it.  It is not possible to make everyone feel that their
> particular preferences have been given priority over everyone else.
>
> Michael
>
>