On Sat, Aug 22, 2009, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Demise?! :-) > > I have to agree with Jeff: the only places I have really seen the shell vanish > it has been moving ??? albeit painfully slowly at times ??? to being replaced > by a > more powerful programming model, universal scripting. > > For example, much of the traditional Unix shell use on MacOS has vanished, > replaced by OSA and AppleScript, or by Automator. In KDE they are gradually > crawling towards more ubiquitous "desktop wide" scripting. I presume that > GNOME is doing more or less the same.
So all of these are to do with scripting/automating GUI tasks rather than anything generic. Adrian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
