GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 133764
miscellaneous minor GUI changes
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Based on gcalctool version 4.3.42. Opening this bug to document several software changes that were documented in other bugs but do not seem to have been made yet. 1) Still seem to have "Gradients" instead of "Gradians". See Bug #129496. 2) Still using "e" instead of "exp" for exponential. See Bug #123132. 3) In the x^2 button, the 2 appears to be italicized, but should not be. See Bug #65806. 4) In the x^y button, the x does not appear to be italicized, but should be. See Bug #130078. 5) The View Thousands Separator menu item remains active during an error condition. Most other menu items are inactive, so this probably should be too? See Bug #125873.
Hi Breda, Going through them: 1) Where are you seeing "gradients"? I've just checked out of CVS HEAD and I have "gradians" in calctool.c and in calctool.1. 2) Where are you thinking "exp" should go instead of "e"? Is this the button "e to the power of the displayed value" or somewhere else? If it's the former, then I disagree that this should be changed from "e" to "exp". If it's the latter - exactly where? 3) Agreed. That's easy to fix. 4) I thought we'd agreed that just the "y" was italized? If "x" should be italized here, then shouldn't it also be in x^2 (see 3) above)? 5) Yup. This is an error, but easy to fix. Okay, let's come to concensus on 1), 2) and 4), then I'll create a patch. Thanks.
Hi Rich, 1) I see gradients in the GUI, when I choose Scientific Mode. See the latest screenshot in the updated manual in CVS HEAD. 2) When you choose the Sci or Eng display type option, the text "e" appears in the display area. This should be "exp" instead, to avoid confusion with "e", the base of natural logarithm. 4) Both the x and y are variables, so both should be italicized. The "x" in "x^2" should be italicized, but not the 2. Regards, Breda.
Okay, I'm seeing 1). And I'm okay with 4) if we do both as you suggest. I disagree with you on 2). I did a google search for "scientific notation". I found: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/scinot.html http://www.ieer.org/clssroom/scinote.html which uses "E" rather than "e" and I'm willing to make that change. I did not see any web pages using "exp" for this. I'll generate a patch for the things that we are in agreement on. Please reply w.r.t. 2). Thanks.
Using "E' instead of "e" for scientific notation isn't going to work. The hexadecimal digits were adjusted to be upper case letters (see bug #118826). Exponential was then adjusted to "e" to avoid confusion. I feel it's best to leave this the way it is for now. I don't think "exp" is any better than "e".
Created attachment 24237 [details] Fix for parts 1,3,4 and 5.
Changes checked into CVS HEAD. Version number bumped to 4.3.44.
Fine by me.