Re: Release Plans

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 09/26/2013 02:38 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I'm not sure it makes sense to disable the GUI by default and then 
> tell people that they should enable it and tell us what they think.  
> People will just want to use it by default anyway.  I expect that 
> people who package Octave will just enable it by default anyway, since 
> that is what the users seem to want.
>
> Also, people liked QtOctave and they have been using all sorts of 
> other halfway finished GUIs for Octave for years.  They are so 
> desperate for a GUI that they've put up with some really bad attempts 
> to provide one. They may have some complaints about the new GUI, but 
> at least they will no longer be able to complain that Octave sucks 
> because it doesn't have a GUI.
>
> jwe 
OK.  I am willing to agree that making it the default is the better
choice, as it is now.
I just thought that John was nervous about releasing it before
the switch to OpenGL, etc.

Now, what about the default graphics_toolkit?  The GUI seems
fine with fltk.  Should this be the default?  I know that there are
arguments on both sides.  In my case I now always use fltk.

Michael