I "buy" software maintenance for MATLAB because of the IDE. I don't know if anybody else has this problem but the report buttons on the current folder toolbar don't work (although the reports accessed from the drop down menu do).I'm not vision impaired! I don't need my icons to be nearly 10% of the vertical space on my monitor! I actually have a use for that space.The new help system stinks (I know others have said it and I've voted for every one of those posts too.) I mean, seriously: a pop up contents directory tree (and it's slow to boot)!.Has space become so precious that there's no longer room for the undock icons in the environment tabs?.I know this seems minor to some, but IT IS SERIOUSLY IMPACTING MY ABILITY TO GET MY WORK DONE ! (Sorry, I'm done shouting now). One I dock my figures on the right hand side of my screen (which means that the zoom, pan, etc controls are all on the far side of the screen from my figures) And, I often want access to both those tools and the editor tab of the ribbon at the same time! There should be an option to doc the figure toolbar in the figure window. For me there are a few specific issues with this. When I dock a figure, it makes the figure toolbar virtually useless, since it becomes a tab on ribbon.EDIT: Serialisation for Matlab objects, very important when communicating among several Matlab instances.TMW seems to only really support Windows platform specific features and technologies, and the other platforms are second-class citizens (but we don't get financial discounts for reduced functionality). I'm sure gnome/kde would benefit from similar changes too. Better platform integration: On OS X we still are waiting for clipboard support for vector graphics (OS X had PDF built-in, this is not difficult), and even simple Applescript abilities would allow very powerful integration with other apps (like Excel for example).More robust parallelization The parallel computing toolbox is very useful, but it would be really helpful to have some of that core functionality within Matlab itself, these should be language features, not added extras.Something like "Go to anything." (fuzzy find any file/function/class/method anywhere in the path) in Sublime Text 2 would be awesome. I'd realy like to see better/smarter completions for things like class properties, and a structure browser for methods/subfunctions. Why does TMW hide things like HG2 for years!?!? Give us a modern UI toolkit (it is already mostly there under the surface, see undocumented matlab), and build a UI editor that doesn't suck. It falls over when dealing with anything more than simplistic UIs (try multiple selecting groups of components and arrow-key positioning them or try changing tab order, and watch Matlab brought to its knees). The UI toolkit is already very limited in Matlab, but then Matlab wraps that in a really dated, slow UI editor. Guide is a bug ridden, slow and hugely limited mess.Where is the modern graphics support, something like a native PDF or SVG engine, per item opacity and full anti-aliasing without compromises? Pixellated klunky graphing is embarrassing for a suite for which visualisation is a core component. opacity support in OpenGL causes vector export to fail!!!). We have a hodge-podge of 3 different renderers each with a set of drawbacks (i.e. Graphics are still rendered without anti-aliasing and robust alpha opacity support with the default renderer.Matlab has a number of core features used daily that are in desperate need of updating: Nevertheless overall this really is a minor change (do people really twiddle with the UI for most of the time in Matlab, are they really saving substantial time clicking through ribbon tabs than a menu?). As an OS X user, the ribbon adds nothing of value. I'm sure the UI refactoring is useful to some people, but the ribbon is a conceptual reassignment of function locations, which at best offers greater discoverability for new users, and at worst a disorienting experience for those used to a menu paradigm (in which case, keyboard shortcuts are your friend).
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