Re: GUi won't start

[Philip Nienhuis]

c. wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2013, at 22:13, "John W. Eaton"<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > OK, that's good to know.  But I'm still not sure whether it is really best to 
> > use a full web browser to display the community news text.  For our purposes, 
> > using a simple text object like QLabel will probably be just as good and not 
> > add more unnecessary bloat.
> >
> > jwe
>
> while it is definitely too much for just the community news text,
> it would be good to use html rendering for the help browser which would
> allow displaying demo images and formulas in the docs ...

Good idea. But there are counter arguments:

I think for such functionality, Octave could invoke the locally 
installed default web browser as well.
Once started that way, the user can even bookmark the help file itself 
and doesn't strictly need Octave anymore to peruse the manuals.
Better yet, the user can easily add various bookmarks into the help 
docs, and it would save Octave devs the hassle of implementing bookmarks 
in Octave's Qt-WebKit panes.

Several Windows installers added the html (& pdf) docs to the Start 
Menu, that way I got used to reading up on Octave tru my browser. I find 
that very convenient.

> I do not think that should be a goal for the 3.8 release though.

There's enough to do, sure. Depends on how much work it is and how 
intrusive the required patches would be.

Philip