Joerg Schilling wrote: >Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 04:10 -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> >> >> >>>I have yet to see any GUI that really does the above, although otherwise >>>hideous AIX's rather nice "smit" tries hard. >>> >>> >>One reason for that is that GUIs don't necessarily map 1-to-1 onto CLI >>commands, or vice versa. CLIs tend to be modal and procedural, a good >>GUI is often the opposite. Indeed, most of the worst GUIs I've seen are >>just thin wrappers around a pre-existing CLI command, with a bunch of >>text fields and checkboxes that require you to be familiar with the CLI >>command anyway. >> >> > >A well designed GUI is able to wrap around the CLI of cdrecord, mkisofs, >readcd, cdda2wav and give you additional functionality that users do not have >directly with the CLI commands. > > > The current Gnome offering is pretty good in that regard. I have a couple of novice users (including a 10 year old) who are happy to plug in their cameras and make CDs from a selection of photos. This is easier on Solaris than windows. Even 6 months ago this was a pipe dream on Solaris!
A cool add-on would be the ability to combine the parts and burn a Solaris DVD. Anyone? Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
