On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:21:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat 09 Sep at 23:38:53 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > > > > Being able to distinguish an elephant fro a sparrow is possibly the > > skill who is the hardest to acquire for a hunter. Hint: if it is > > small and has wings then it is a sparrow, if it is big, grey and has > > a trunk then it is an elephant. :-) > > > > For command line versus GUI a practical thumb is what is faster. Look > > at my previous message for examples where using a GUI is definitely > > faster than using command line. Even when the GUI provides only > > minimal functionality like in Glint and Gnorpm and the user has been > > using RPM since its inception in 1995. > > > > -- > > Jean Francois Martinez > > I agree and most GUI's designed right you can begin doing things immediately, > without having to read man pages. GUI's HAVE their place. I think people are forgetting what glint was like. While the statement above about well designed GUI tools may be absolutely right. It certainly does not apply to glint. The reason I tried to learn command line rpm was because glint was `hard' to use. I found the basic rpm commands in my install manual (4.2) to be easier and faster. Remember it wasn't until 6.0 or so that you could easily install and have X working. I had a hell of a time getting X up back in 4.2 install days. Rendering glint completely beside the point. When I did get X running, as a very new user, I found glint to be hard to use, very slow and tedious too. I screwed up lots of stuff using glint before I finally pitched it. Even in present conditions, I would hazard a guess that a truly new user would play hell understanding and using glint. _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
