Re: Release Plans

[John W. Eaton]

On 09/26/2013 01:58 PM, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:

> In my previous email I think I suggested that the GUI, as it is now,
> should not be the
> default, and, as Rik says, should be described as "experimental."

> As part
> of the 3.8
> release users should be strongly encouraged to try the GUI and report
> their experience,
> both bugs and ease-of-use items.

I'm not sure it makes sense to disable the GUI by default and then tell 
people that they should enable it and tell us what they think.  People 
will just want to use it by default anyway.  I expect that people who 
package Octave will just enable it by default anyway, since that is what 
the users seem to want.

Also, people liked QtOctave and they have been using all sorts of other 
halfway finished GUIs for Octave for years.  They are so desperate for a 
GUI that they've put up with some really bad attempts to provide one. 
They may have some complaints about the new GUI, but at least they will 
no longer be able to complain that Octave sucks because it doesn't have 
a GUI.

jwe