Re: What should an Octave GUI be like?

[Søren Hauberg]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso skrev:
> Going back to the goal: since QtOctave is meant for transitioning for
> Matlab (I personally don't see myself using QtOctave very much in the
> near future; I like consoles and Emacs), perhaps we should be aiming
> to make an app that pleases Windows users even if it looks out of
> place in X.
Well, if you only consider QtOctave as a way of making matlab users 
comfortable with Octave, then I'd say copy the matlab interface. I the 
Dark Ages when I was using Matlab, the first thing I did was to add
  alias matlab matlab -nodesktop
to my .tcshrc (if I remember correctly), simply because the matlab GUI 
is just awful. It's slow and it doesn't actually do anything to make 
your work any easier. So really, I only think you should copy the matlab 
GUI if you _only_ consider QtOctave to be a tool to make matlab users 
comfortable. If you actually want to create a nice interface, then 
please don't copy the matlab one :-)

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