> On the otherhand however we see that a gui has one major advantage: It > visually displays you all the options you have directly and thus, if you > are looking for something, but are unsure what it is, you can just > search through the submenus until you find the right checkbox/dropdown > menu etc. >
Please explain why this is more convenient/faster than reading the man page? You mean clicking around to see all the options is faster than doing 'man page' '/related term' or 'man page' 'Page Down' > This is not only important for stupid people, as we have seen we cant do > anything about them anyways, but also for people who know their stuff. > Why? Simply because no one can remember all the options even if they > know what an option does. For example I might not exactly remember in > which config file (with what syntax) I change ip address and subnet > settings even if I know what Ip addresses are. But on a gui I can just > click around until I find where to edit the ip address. > Okay, a super know everything gui similar to that on Mac OS X helps here. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
