Re: Warning about experimental GUI

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/27/2013 02:51 AM, Torsten wrote:
> Do we really have to show the warning about the experimental GUI in such
> a prominent way? Can we at least make the widget closable?

I figured someone wouldn't like it.

I think the question is what are we trying to tell users?  Is it "expect 
bugs and if you find them we don't want to hear your complaints" or 
"expect bugs, please be nice when you report them" or "we don't really 
think the GUI is ready, but here it is anyway" or what?

FWIW, I'm OK with releasing Octave with the GUI enabled now and just 
being prepared for complaints and nasty comments and trying to fix the 
worst problems for the next point release.  But nearly everyone else 
seems to think that we should disable the GUI for 3.8.  If we disable it 
but include it, then I think we should explain to people why we've done 
that.  Putting that explanation in the release notes guarantees that few 
people will see it.  Putting it in a pop-up dialog when Octave starts 
would probably not be much better if the note is only displayed once. 
Displaying it every time would be more annoying to me than the banner 
that I added.

jwe