I am sorry to say that, but I think that all the discussion about the GUI
is complete non-sense. A GUI is simply a different way to access octave's
functionality that integrates better with the ideas and concepts that a
state-of-the-art program has to have. What I don't understand is that
people are so afraid of using something different than their vi or emacs or
whatever they are used to.
Can you click in the terminal and modify a matrix visually, by clicking a
cell and simply changing the content? No, you can't. Can you type and -
while you type - sort the history in a list, then simply click the command
and it will be inserted into the terminal? No, you can't. Sure, you can
find different ways to do that, but in the end, a GUI offers many
possiblities.
We're in the era of touchscreens and still fiddle with pseudo GUIs in
terminals and editors like vi and emacs that simply look terrible and are a
nightmare to use.
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