Daniel Lemire wrote:
> Somehow, I have to disagree that the "typical person" using Maxima will
> using a GUI. Frankly, I've tried both, and I much prefer working in
> console. I simply open a console and type "maxima".
>
> I'm not sure why you would want to document very much the GUI. It hasn't
> been very helpful to me. The only non trivial issue comes up with the
> plots, but gnuplot is much better at plotting (it gets the job done
> faster and without having to click and click with a mouse... loosing
> valuable time). Maxima is valuable, but in my experience, not because of
> its GUI, not because of the plotting.
>
> I would build the documentation without reference to any GUI... and
> then, add a section on the GUI.
>
> Just my two cents..
>
>
I agree. To my experience text mode with decent command
line editing tools (e.g. readline) is often more convenient
than any GUI. I'm not against GIU and I prefer to have both
text and GUI modes.
Vadim
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