Re: GUI design

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2012/3/23 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> 2012/3/23 Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden>:
>> One question is whether people are more productive using a GUI
>> versus a command line and an editor like gvim or whatever.
>
> This is irrelevant. They want a GUI. You are not going to convince
> them that they don't want a GUI. The first thing every new user does
> when they install Octave is (1) look for a GUI to install or (2)
> complain that there is no GUI.

Oh, I forgot about the third, also very common option: (3) they make
their own GUI, and abandon it after an average of two years.

We need something better than this.

- Jordi G. H.