gcalctool is the official calculator of the Gnome desktop, and its achievements are often overlooked when compared to the gnome-shells, or the zeitgeits, or many of the other ambitious projects emerging with Gnome 3. However, gcalctool is a really powerful utility, and it has many new things coming out that you may like to know about:
- First of all, gcalctool just got a new terminal mode, so you can access its functionality from the command-line by typing 'gcalccmd'.
- Secondly, it now has support for arbitrary variable names, so you can now do "length=200" instead of using the STO button to store the number 200 to R0 or something. Plus, by pressing alt and a number, you can add subscripts to a variable, so you can have variables named x2 and such.
- Also, you can convert numbers from one unit to another. (For example, saying "123 cm in miles" gives ".000764287") Plus, they made it so that you can convert between different currencies, and the calculator will check with the European central bank to make sure its conversion rates are valid.
- They've just finished rewriting the documentation in Mallard. (A new help markup system for Gnome.) Take a look at it. It looks pretty nice. :) http://library.gnome.org/users/gcalctool/5.29/
Cool stuff. I'm glad to see that every bit of Gnome is preparing for version 3.0. Let's just hope that the awesomeness of a bunch of projects doesn't get overshadowed by the epic fail that is gnome-shell... Well, at least they say that the original panel-based interface of the Gnome 2.x series will still be available in 3.x...
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