Re: Embedding the Octave interactive prompt

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 07/11/2007, John Swensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > On 07/11/2007, Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> a larger newborn project
> >>
> >>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/visual-octave
> >
> > Wow. Yet another Octave GUI. Has anyone named one "yaog" yet?
[snip]
> As a matter of fact, there is!
>
>      http://yaog.sourceforge.net/

And here I thought I was just joking...

> Altogether, I can count 7 different attempts at a IDE now, some active,
> others not:
[snip]
> Looks like there is a lot of redundant work going on (myself included).
> I wonder if there is someway to collaborate, despite using different UI
> toolkits (GTK, QT, Java, others?).

Clearly, we need The One GUI To Rule Them All. We probably should find
a Benevolent Dictator For Life to get started. On that subject, I
found an article that seems vaguely relevant, considering that the GUI
is all about improving usability:

     http://humanized.com/weblog/2007/10/05/make_oss_humane/

I'd also like to highlight the point about not joining the Clone Wars.
Implementing the Matlab API is important; its graphical interface less
so.

I'm gonna stick to QtOctave because Qt produces native-looking
applications for every platform and because I like its C++ approach to
things, despite its heavily preprocessed code. Hopefully one of these
projects will eventually garner enough momentum to attract more
coders.

May the best GUI win, I guess.

- Jordi G. H.