Re: Discussion: 2.2 Proposed Modules List

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:13:55PM -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote: 
> > > >   - gcalctool: Scientific calculator. Proposed to replace gnome-calculator.
> > > 
> > > Do we need an advanced calculator in our desktop release? I'm not convinced
> > > that gcalctool is as cool as our current one, despite its preference for
> > > correct floating point answers. :-)
> > 
> > We should ship one and only one calculator.  If gcalctool is much
> > better, lets replace gnome-calculator in gnome-utils.  I would be sad to
> > see the easter-egg go, though.
> 
> I have a strong view that the default calculator should come up by
> default looking like "plus minus divide multiply", i.e. without all
> the strange two-letter scientific buttons.

We could always do the two-stage calculator thing.  That's what Windows
does, anyway.

-Jonathan