[openbeos] Re: Calculator still needed?

"Waldemar Kornewald" <wkornew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree that the calculator should look like a real calculator. 
> That's
> also useful for touch-screen input and it helps to immediately
> understand how to use the app. A little pop-up button for inserting
> special functions and base conversion should be added, too, but I
> disagree that we should add menus. Do you want to add a menu just for
> two small functions? That's not worth it. Do you want to add menus 
> for
> 10 functions? That's getting bloated. Let's not have menus. They
> introduce a way to add a lot of bloat and they're not worth being
> added just for two extra functions.

A menu for settings, compacted mode, about, functions, number base, 
copy&paste, equation/result history, number conversions etc. - it could 
have quite a number of useful items.
Some people are uncomfortable with right click only menus when they are 
indeed no real context menus.

Bye,
   Axel.

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