Re: galculator should be included in Gnome [OT rant]

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 22:07, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Drifting off topic here - (note that I haven't looked at gcalctool)

FWIW,
one of the main distinguishing characteristics of gcalctool IMO is that
it is much more like a command-line calculator than other "GUI" calcs.

I haven't decided whether that's on balance a good or a bad thing, since
these capabilities of gcalctool (one-key commands, ability to create
macros and functions without the GUI, etc.) are the things that make it
"nonintuitive".  Basically it's a GUI wrapper around a very terse
keyboard-operated CLI, IMO.

> While the concept of copying a simple 4 function calculator may have
> a bit of merit - people are familiar with that - copying a physical
> calculator really is a entirely broken way of presenting a interface
> for interactive calculations.
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