possibility of making wxMaxima the default GUI (instead of Xmaxima)

I periodically use wxMaxima vs 0.6.4 and find it to be a useful tool
when I desire a more intelligible output of a longer function.  It has
some stability issues on amd64 running gentoo linux, but in general I
think it a good future direction for a gui. It, of course, consumes some
overhead for parsing the output and displaying it. For what is it worth,
I like it better than the default gui but still only use it less than
25% of the time.

Pete Gustafson



On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:38 -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i wonder if anyone is in favor of making wxMaxima (http://wxmaxima.sf.net)
> the default GUI instead of Xmaxima.
> 
> i think wxMaxima has the following going for it --
> it is easier to find a function (labelled buttons and menus
> organized thematically), the help system is better integrated,
> it is quite a lot more polished, and it is an active project.
> 
> i have asked the wxMaxima project leader (andrej vodopivec)
> about this and he says he thinks wxMaxima is mature enough
> to be the default GUI for maxima.
> 
> anyway, i wonder what you-all think about that.
> 
> robert dodier
> 
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