Re: Discussion: 2.2 Proposed Modules List

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 13 Nov 2002, Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> 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.
> 

the 'change this option to get a "normal" calculator' doesn't appear to be
all tha obvious to users in practice. I'm also very much not convinced
that gcalctool is scarier than gnome-calculator - after all, the present
calculator also has a lot of "strange two-letter scientific buttons" in
the first three rows and the whole of leftmost column. 

> -Jonathan
> 

	Sander

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