LOL. Thanks James for prefacing your comment with <in old fart mode> Loved it. > jam <j...@tigger.ws> wrote in <old fart mode> > The GUI paradigism allows people who have not learned to talk to computers to > communicate using pictures. > This picture mode is slow and cumbersome (imagine talking to a Russian, but > using pictures to convey your point) > I know you were only using this as an analogy but: Imagine talking to anyone when you don't share a language. That'd be a perfect example of where pictures would come in highly useful and would speed up communication - writing would be sooooooo slooooooooow :) Imagine being in Papua New Guinea in the 1930s and trying to explain to a highlander what a photograph was by writing to them :) Oh, what about describing Salvador Dali's genius without a picture :)
However Daniel beat me to it. > As an example, graphical image editing tools generally allow faster editing of > pictures than command line tools generally, because some limited cases are > faster on the command line, so even this isn't clear-cut. > The ability of a GUI to provide immediate reference points in an image, to show 'as you are doing it' responses and to allow intricate detail to be created cannot be surpassed. Weirdly, humans are more oriented towards images than text...though I do thank the Sumerian's etc for their efforts. All of this said, there are instances where the CLI certainly provides an advantage over the GUI for some actions in image management - I occasionally us it for some video editing/transcoding. However these advantages are few relative to the multitude of instances wherein a GUI is so much better - like painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa, changing the colour of someone's eyes, removing a complex pattern from a picture, drawing a complex pattern and making minor edits to it as you go. <dismounting> Regards, Patrick -- http://lugnuts.wftl-lug.org/pg/blog/Patrick www.youcantdothatinlinux.com Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
