[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 17 Oct 2001, Richard Cohen wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, David Damerell wrote:
>>Out of interest, what do you imagine the 'G' in GUI - that
>>distinguishes it from just a 'UI' - stands for?
>Bash has a UI.  In my opinion, it has quite a nice UI, with things like
>(programmable in newer releases) tab-completion, variable substitution and
>so on.  I doubt anybody would attempt to argue that bash has a GUI.

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

>>>looks like. So, Pine has a better GUI than vi, for example, because it's a
>>>lot easier to get into initially,
>>Which is meaningless to the experienced user.
>Everyone uses everything for the first time once.  If that can be made
>easier without making it harder for more experienced users, why not?

In theory, yes; in practice, this always seems to result in a tool
that's completely useless to anyone with any experience, like
Pine. Dunno why, but there it is.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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