Re: Request feedback for gcalctool feature request.

[Tim Gerla <tim gerla net>]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 12:35 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:

> http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/
> 
> truly a 'light' interface- enter the equation you want, hit enter. No
> need to emulate the keys at all. 
> 
> Which, if you think about it, probably makes a lot of sense... I can see
> an ideal calculator interface being basically a very good equation
> editor + a solver, with the interface 'assuming' that you can type 2+2
> from the keyboard instead of needing to mouse around to do it. All you
> need to do is figure out a way to 'hint' to users that they are supposed
> to just type it in, since many people are used to calculator emulation
> (even though that is sort of silly.)
>

I'm also going to sidetrack on the original question, but I'd like to
concur with Luis and say that I like the Qalculate interface. I use
something called AllerCalc on Windows--it sits in my tray and I use it
all the time.

On Unix, I unfortunately always pop up a terminal, start bc, and type
'scale=3' ...

-Tim