On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: > One thing the command-line does well is to give names to concepts > (basically, command names, option names, ...). It's easy to write in a > tutorial or an email "run the command 'git foo'". It's less easy to > write "click on that red button, on the right of the green one".
And it is also easier for many to press a button than writing a command. This is a bad thing, in my experience. In a GUI, people tend to take chances: "Oh, reset, that sounds like what I want. What, it did not work? Oh there is this option 'hard', let's tick it and see what happens." Another thing GUIs do not (often) offer is history. I would be lost if I couldn't see what I was trying to do 5 commands ago (before someone interrupted me), or refer to a previous error message. But if you cannot touch-type, buttons are going to be more attractive. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
