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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I share the concern.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Scilab 6.1.1 was released in July (a
few months back).</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Could we make a target for the next
release (e.g. next spring or summer), maybe a wish list? ...
something to work towards.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best regards,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Claus<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18-11-2021 11:48, Chin Luh Tan
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<div dir="ltr">It has been a while since I was away from the
Scilab mailing list, in fact, I am of the opinion that the
Scilab Developer Community seems to be reducing over time...
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<div>I was a half-cooked developer (maybe not even half-cooked)
who had been playing around with Scilab for quite some time. I
have to agree that after the ESI taking over, the Scilab team
focus seems to be less on the "Community Version", and the
enthusiasm of the Community Developers just could not heat up,
as there are none official activities initiated from the ESI
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<div>I do like Scilab, alot, but seeing this pace of moving,
sooner or later, I worry that Scilab will eventually
disappear... sorry to say that. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 18:32,
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<p>Hi David,</p>
<p>Sorry for being rude but who in the (zombie) Scilab
community would have some time to develop such fancy
stuff, when so many basic things such as a decent html
redering of help pages is missing ? BTW you ask for a dark
mode but Scilab is slowly but irremediably sliding to
darkness...<br>
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<p>I was recently interviewed by students of a french
engineering school (not mine) on my feeling about the
past, present and future of Scilab, and one of the points
I mentioned is the death of the aforementioned community.
First by its size then by its age distribution and finally
by its lack of investment in the development of Scilab
itself. The only newcomming users I have met this year on
StackOverflow are students who were told to do some
homework by their math teacher. None of the brilliant
students I meet each year in my course (which uses Scilab)
are interested in developping Scilab. Recently one of them
was hired as a research engineer at Inria to work in the
Scikit-learn consortium hence Python stuff ! <br>
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<p>When I read such (legitimate) demands as the one
formulated by David, I am not sure that actual Scilab
users are aware of the situation. One the one hand ESI
hosts the rest of the Scilab team, which has its own
business plan and spends its time on developments which
are not available to the community (e.g. the Scilab
Cloud), and on the other hand some (dumb ?) guys which
still spend (waste ?) their time to fix what they can fix
or consider to be fixed. I have to say that the Scilab
team does help us when we ask some help, but the
initiative to fix this or that must come from us. <br>
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<p>As far as I am concerned I consider that working on
solvers (nonlinear equations, differential equations,
optimization, ...) is a priority of higher level than gui
stuff. I met so many people trying (and failing) to solve
real/big problems with Scilab that I could not just give
up and tell them to use Matlab. That's why I rewrote from
scratch sci-ipopt in order to allow Scilab to solve
efficiently nonlinear optimization problems. That's why I
am currently interfacing the SUNDIALS ode/dae solvers
(which are already used in XCos). The Kinsol equation
solver (also from SUNDIALS) could also be interfaced, in
order to provide an alternative to the very poor lsqrsolve
(missing features like positivity constraints and sparse
jacobian). However, when I write help pages I realize the
very poor rendering of them in Scilab help browser (this
is due to the very poor css support of actual (Swing) html
viewer). I have some helpfull hints for the (unconscious)
person who would want to spend some time on this issue,
provided that she/he knows Java. </p>
<p>If you think you can contribute to the debate just
express yourself. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I‘m wondering if
anyone already looked for developing a “dark mode”
for Scilab look and feel, following dark mode or
dark theme selected in the OS. If not linked
automatically to the OS theme, then it might be
custom colour and code colorization configuration in
this perspective that could be shared ?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thank you for
any hint, </span></p>
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