Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work

> Have you heard of TeXmacs?  Please try it.  http://www.texmacs.org/
> They have mailing lists also.

According to their mail list they fixed the Alt-Gr Problem but there are 
several disadvantages remaining: 

* TeXmacs still has problems with double-quotes like describe("INTEGRATE");

* I can't copy from the TeXmacs window

* I can't save a maxima session, restart TeXmacs, load the session and 
reevaluate the loaded session.

* I can't select and copy the D-Label output  as new input:
   Try:  'INTEGRATE(SIN(x),x); Mark the integral and copy it into the new
   C-Label line

* There is no grouping (see Mathematica or the old Macsyma GUI)

To sum it up: TeXmacs is totally useless as an interface to maxima for 
reasonable work. (I'm sorry I have to say this). If you look at the TeXmacs 
maxima interface source codes you see their is one workaround following the 
other. Since TeXmacs itself is well designed, the problem becomes clear: The 
interfaces maxima provide are not well suited to computer based handling. If 
we expect someone writing a nice GUI for maxima this has to change, so I 
suggest using XML which seperates the structure form the display and is 
somewhat feature save. And I already saw someone announcing  "Scheme and XML" 
in the TeXmacs-dev list ;-)!

Greetings
	Michael