Re: Comfortable Octave usage on Windows

[John B. Thoo]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:55 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 28-Apr-2009, Judd Storrs wrote:
>
> | On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Frank Luis Enrique  
> <address@hidden>wrote:
> |
> | > Have you ever tried to sell an ungly car with a perfectly  
> working engine?
>
> This still doesn't answer the question of where the funding will come
> from if Octave did have a pretty GUI.  Why do you think people will
> suddenly feel motivated to throw money at us if we add a GUI to
> Octave?  It seems more likely to me that they would just complain that
> it doesn't use their favorite GUI toolkit.  And anyway, none of the
> people who have provided significant funding for Octave in the past
> have ranked a GUI as a top priority.
>
> | Have you ever tried giving an ugly car with a perfectly working  
> engine away
> | for free?
>
> Let me guess.  People still bitch and moan about the quality of the
> paint job?
>
> jwe


Hello, everyone.

I'm a newbie to Octave.  (It's true that I've had v. 2.1.73 installed  
for donkeys years, I used it only *very* lightly for very simple  
things, mostly to obtain simple plots.  But now I have v. 3.0.5  
installed and am wanting to use Octave more fully.)  FWIW, I'm a Mac  
user and I love my GUI; however, I *like* _Octave_ *as it is*.

(Please, no flames.  I only wanted to provide another data point.) :-)

---John.