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Re: GUI design
From: |
Michael Goffioul |
Subject: |
Re: GUI design |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:52:39 +0100 |
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Lukas Reichlin
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 28.03.2012, at 12:37, Richard Crozier wrote:
>
>> As I understand it the devs are close to achieving the GUI Octave
>> feature set already, or have possibly exceeded them?
>
>> Whereas I
>> think it better to produce something with the minimum feature set of GUI
>> Octave, and add further features later, as a GUI with these features is
>> better than nothing in my opinion.
>
> I think there is a lot of bikeshedding going on here. There should be a few
> basic goals for the GUI:
>
> * code builds on Linux, Windows and Mac
> * a command window
> * a simple editor
> * a file browser
> * a help viewer
> * a plot viewer
>
> Once these basic things are completed and officially released (as soon as
> possible), one could still add more advanced features, tweak the layout and,
> if you like, argue whether Octave should include an IRC client or not.
>
> Regards,
> Lukas
>
I fully agree. However I also think it's worth spending some time
beforehand selecting the appropriate underlying technologies in order
to avoid being stuck later on.
Michael.
- Re: GUI design, (continued)
- Re: GUI design, Michael Goffioul, 2012/03/27
- Re: GUI design, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/03/28
- Re: GUI design, Richard Crozier, 2012/03/28
- Re: GUI design, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/03/28
- Re: GUI design, Richard Crozier, 2012/03/28
- Re: GUI design, Lukas Reichlin, 2012/03/28
- Re: GUI design,
Michael Goffioul <=
- Re: GUI design, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/03/29
- Re: GUI design, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/03/29
- Re: GUI design, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2012/03/29
- Re: GUI design, Michael Goffioul, 2012/03/29
- Re: GUI design, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/03/29
- Re: GUI design, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2012/03/29
- Re: GUI design, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/03/29
- Re: GUI design, Judd Storrs, 2012/03/29
- Re: GUI design, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2012/03/30
- Re: GUI design, Judd Storrs, 2012/03/30