Re: Hi

[Francesco Potortì]

>Would it make you feel better if the window that comes up when you
>click on the icon had the familiar [File] [Edit] ... [Help] buttons,
>but you still had to type commands at a prompt?  Would you have been
>less confused if those buttons had appeared?  This is a serious
>question.  Have we now arrived at a point where people can't use
>software if it doesn't present thse buttons? 

>From my experience, think this moment has arrived long ago on Windows,
in fact.  And recently it has arrived on Linux, too, thanks to desktop
user interfaces like Gnome and Kde.  I suggest that Octave keeps this
into account.

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