Jiri Lebl has announced the release of Genius 1.0.26. Genius is a general purpose calculator with many advanced capabilities.
GENIUS 1.0.26 the "Dilapidated barn" release
Genius is a general purpose calculator with many advanced capabilities. To find out more go to:
https://www.jirka.org/genius.html
A number of fixes and minor improvements has again amassed in git requiring a release of the pressure. The file dialogs are native now, starting gnome-genius twice no longer starts a global pandemic (sorry about that), and the range boxes in the plotting window are now evaluated so that one can put actual expressions there like pi^2. Plus a bunch of other minor issues were fixed, leading to more stability in the middle east (and everywhere else where genius is run).
In any case, Genius is one of the oldest GNOME projects going back to late 1997. It was the original GNOME calculator before I got wild ideas about it doing absolutely everything. It is programmable, has a powerful language and handles many fun features including support for matrices, rational numbers, and nice 2D and 3D plotting. The GUI version requires GNOME2 (at least glib2 if you don't want a GUI) a recent enough GMP library and the MPFR library. You can still use the command line version if you prefer non-gui interface.
Here are the news in 1.0.26:
* The range boxes in the plot dialog are now evaluated rather than being spin boxes, so that one can use arbitrary genius expressions there.
* Always spawn a new instance, none of this uniqueness nonsense.
* Various fixes stemming from the port to GTK3 and from various new compiler warnings.
* File chooser dialogs are now native.
* Fix saving of settings in the presence of old style settings directories.
* Set default gtksourceview colorscheme to "kate" as "classic" is hard to see in dark mode. It can be set in the config file (no GUI currently)
* Translation updates (Daniel Mustieles, Enrico Nicoletto, Anders Jonsson, Yuri Chornoivan, Rodrigo Costa, Daniel Șerbănescu, Мирослав Николић, Florentina Mușat, Jordi Mas, Tim Sabsch, Andika Triwidada, Henrique Machado Campos, Rafael Fontenelle)
http://download.gnome.org/sources/genius/1.0/
ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/genius/
https://www.jirka.org/genius.html
Genius is in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, GARNOME, OpenSUSE, and probably other distribution repositories, so check those. Usually you want to install two packages: genius and gnome-genius. Of course, it will be a little bit before this version hits those servers ...
Have fun,
Jiri
