[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

[Paul Brazier]

> Well, quite. But Alex Hudson seems to think that a text based screen
> mode UI is a GUI, which it ain't.

Surely the point of a GUI is that it adds an extra spatial dimension for
the user.
So with "ed" or at the bash prompt you can just go forwards or backwards
but with vi or any curses-type program you can also go up or down *on
the same screen*.
And you can see and edit data in a 2D table.

Things like the bash history add a kind of extra dimension but not on
the same screen. Maybe they have a fractal dimension.


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