Re: gcalctool / gcal

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 06:34, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Havoc wrote:
> 
> > Luis Villa <louie ximian com> writes:  
> > > *gcalctool: a more powerful gtk calculator. It is not very GNOME-ish
> > > ATM; otherwise it's superior to the current crop in many ways. 
> > 
> > When I saw this, it was a really scary-looking scientific calculator.
> > I think the default thing under Accessories->Calculator should be in a
> > pretty simple mode by default, without lots of math geek buttons.
> 
> I can't remember what platform this borrows from, but I seem to remember
> a calculator with a magic 'scientific mode' button that turned it from a
> basic grocery-store model into something pretty sophisticated, and back
> again (sort of a 'complexify' toggle).
> 
> It would be nice if we could somehow merge these two projects without
> turning gcalc (in its basic mode of operation) into a memory hog.  Maybe
> loading gcalctool dynamically on demand, but otherwise just presenting
> and using the simple gcalc UI?
> 
> The main disadvantage of keeping them separate is that we either need
> two menu items (ugh!) or one of them (presumably gcalctool) will remain
> a 'hidden feature' that users must discover by means other than
> menu-browsing.

It won't be a hidden feature- we won't ship two calculators, period.
Either gcalctool will be acceptable or it won't. :)

Luis