On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:21:01AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > > > The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid > > using language elements, CLI. Arranging windows, presenting > > information, displaying structures, managing things. GUI > > alone, with no functional substance behind it, is useless. > > Sadly, you'll find more and more programs that have blingbling > > and "experience", but are useless to those who want to achieve > > a certain goal with it. > > Another strength, potentially large but all-too-frequently > overlooked entirely, is as a learning aid. In the situation > that operations in the GUI map reasonably well to TUI commands > -- which by definition includes cases in which the GUI is used > as a front-end to issue commands to an external TUI-based program > -- the GUI really should have a mode wherein it displays or logs > the TUI commands that it is performing.
I agree. That is one type of GUI I would really love to see getting more popular. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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