From: Axel Vogt on
Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 7/16/2010 12:04 PM, Axel Vogt wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes. But there is still the Classical interface (though
>> its 'support' is frozen), which is what you had before.
>>
>
> Yes, but since the classical is frozen, this means, it can be yanked out
> any time. May be by next version?
>
> Which means the time investment I make to learn Maple will be wasted,
> since I will be forced to use the Java interface to use Maple, which I
> dislike so much and do not want to use.
>
> Only other option left would be to use the command line interface with
> Maple. Not too exciting options for me.
>
> I buy Maple each year, I have all versions from version 8 to Maple 14,
> hoping the new interface will be more usable.
>
> I gave up on Maplesoft.

Marketing ... but history tells much about prior marketing.
Yes, what a pity.
From: Roman Pearce on
I've mostly gotten over it. The Maple 14 interface works well for me
on 64-bit Linux. In the options "display" tab I set "input display" -
> "maple notation", and on the "interface" tab I set "default format
for new worksheets"->"worksheet", then I hit "apply globally".