[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

[mike]

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 17:11, Paul Brazier wrote:
> > GUIs are tools for power users - they enable people to do 
> > work more quickly. 
> > They enable you to work with datasets with more than one 
> > dimension. They 
> > allow you to express more powerful relations between objects.
> 
> I suppose this depends on the application - obviously some by there very
> nature must be graphical - such as drawing/painting/video editing
> packages. These are highly interactive.
> 
> But a lot of things just need setting off then do their thing
> uninterrupted e.g. ppp-dialers or CD players or something. For these the
> GUI is just a convenience so you don't have to remember obscure commands
> and myriad options.
> 
> I spend a lot of my work time writing SQL and I find writing the SQL
> direct much more powerful than using some sort of GUI grid. Though when
> I first started out this was useful to get me started.
> Some of the graphical interfaces used in MS SQL Server like DTS packages
> for anyone that's used them are awful and just obscure what's going on
> underneath.

Could not have said it better myself (plus scripting works sometimes and
sometimes it don't)


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