Re: Octave 4.4 Proposal: make --no-gui the default

[Carnë Draug]

On 14 March 2018 at 11:53, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 13 March 2018 at 21:42, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Maintainers,
>>
>> I propose that Octave 4.4 should make the default behavior be equivalent
>> to "octave --no-gui".  This would run Octave as a command-line
>> interpreter with the Qt toolkit loaded and usable as the default
>> graphics toolkit.
>>
>> I also propose that we add a new "--gui" option, possibly with a short
>> equivalent of "-G" or "-g" or both.  The option "--force-gui" would
>> remain as an alias for "--gui", can be deprecated and removed
>> eventually.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Hi Mike
>
> We discussed it this morning.  We all agreed this makes a lot of sense
> and will simplify our input checks and want it for 4.4.
>
> Carnë

This change has now been pushed [1]

[1] http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a4dc2ef8741c