GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 624470
Various UI suggestions
Last modified: 2010-07-16 07:22:09 UTC
I am using gcalctool 5.28.2 Here are some user interface suggestions: 1. When in scientific display mode, pressing the lower case "L" key brings in an obscure financial function. I think financial function shortcuts should be disabled in scientific display mode. I was hoping I could just type "ln" in to get the ln function. 2. There should be a way to break out of time consuming calculations, e.g. in scientific mode ln(cosh(999999999)) is very time consuming, and during this duration the window fails to redraw itself, and there is no way to "escape" out of doing the calcuation. Less importantly: 3. It would be good if there was an "Ans" button so you could type "Ans+Ans^2" which would act on the previous answer. 4. A "go back to last edit line" button (like cursor up and down goes through the history in a bash prompt) 5. It would be good if the equals key was in the bottom right like on most physical scientific calculators. Thanks for producing the application. Apologies if this is an inappropriate "bug" report.
1. This is the behaviour since 5.30 2. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576371 3. This function is available since 5.31 4. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327590 (I've added a comment about the up arrow suggestion). 5. Because the button display is so wide I don't want to move the equals key too far away from the numbers as this makes it hard to do simple calculations You can read more about recent versions of gcalctool in this post: http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2010/05/gcalctool-5311.html I'm closing this bug as I think all your points are solved/tracked as shown above. Thanks for taking the time to report a bug.
Thank you for the prompt and full response. So it sounds like you're on top of these issues already. Thanks for working on the application, I look forward to getting the newer version. Mike.