gCalcTool

[John Nilsson]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:33 -0300, Edir wrote:
> get this i notice now that i need to uncheck the option CTRL+U, i
> don't know the name in English. 
"Use Arithmetic Precedence"

> I don't know if i'm right, but i think that Ubuntu, that is made for
> Humans, need to use the default calculator mode like a simple mode and
> not like expressions. What do you think about?

Interesting problem. On the one hand, arithmetic precedence should be a
usability improvement because it's more intelligent, and more "math
like". On the other hand, the whole interface looks like you typical
desk calculator, thus it isn't surprising that users would expect it to
behave as a typical desk calculator.

So, either you can do as the OP suggest, have that option off by
default, or the UI could be changed to further suggest that the
application behaves more like your typical graph paper than your typical
desk calculator.

A third alternative that might make things really interesting is to
change the interface to require reverse polish notation ;P

Regards,
John