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From: | Robert T. Short |
Subject: | Re: Is it GUI? Or is it IDE? |
Date: | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:51:35 -0700 |
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On 08/24/2012 12:57 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
I have said it before, but GUI is a much more general term than IDE. Certainly an IDE is a GUI, but we have other GUIs already present in octave (e.g. plotting) and MATLAB provides the user with the ability to create GUIs for their own applications and I think there has been some work in octave to do the same.--force-gui Force graphical user interface to start. --no-gui Disable the graphical user interface.Before getting too far along, it might worth re-opening the discussion of the phrase "gui" (graphical user interface) versus "ide" (integrated development environment) because this was a point of contention in the past. I may be wrong, but from those threads about four months ago my conclusion was that things seemed to be leaning toward "ide".
I really think we should back away from using GUI to describe an IDE. I think GUI, being more general, is confusing.
Bob
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