Re: GUI design

[tom yengst]

>> I think it's clear that while we keep arguing in mailing lists about
>> how to design a GUI it becomes a matter of personal unsubstantiated
>> value judgements. In the meantime, we still have no GUI and we still
>> have people either not using Octave because it has no GUI and
>> resorting to non-free alternatives.

>> However, I have yet to see a negative review of GUI Octave, except
>> that it hangs or crashes on newer versions. People seem to really like
>> it. I therefore propose: let's adopt it as the gold standard of what
>> our own GUI should look like. It's what Windows users are primarily
>> installing as a GUI nowadays, and that's precisely the group we'd like
>> to capture. We have lots of evidence that this is good GUI design,
>> regardless of our personal opinions.

>> So, can we agree on this? Whenever we can't agree on what the Octave
>> GUI should look like, then it should look like GUI Octave.

>> - Jordi G. H.

agreed - looks good. I wish GUI Octave didn't hang with 3.6.1, but as
a design, it's quite good enough.

Tom