On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:49 AM, John Griessen wrote: > On 11/01/2010 11:05 AM, John Doty wrote: >> Point and click is a seductive time waster*except* for inherently graphical >> parts of the job. > > A lot of layout is.
Sure. That's a good use of GUI. But parts selection, assigning pin numbers, revision control, document generation, running simulations (as opposed to inspecting siumulation results), etc. are all fundamentally clerical tasks where a GUI gets in the way, especially if the job is outside the GUI designer's necessarily limited horizon. But there's lots of overlap. For example, gattrib is great for a little "touch up" of a few attributes, but for larger scale changes it is a time waster. Because gattrib is a separate tool communicating through a clean interface whose design it did not influence, it's also harmless. An integrated gattrib would be much more troublesome. > > Rearranging some sets of files' locations is faster by GUI than by commands, > since whole swaths of files > can be moved at once after a quick selection task done visually. I bet if you actually measured the time, you wouldn't find the selection as quick as you think. GUI's warp perception. They make things easy, not quick. > (and no, regexp's would not help this.). They do for me. "mv `ls | grep ...` wherever". But mostly I try not to get into a mess where there are large numbers of files in a directory. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
