On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:34, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> On a personal note, I prefer ``mplayer -dvd 1'' to launching a GUI and
> clicking around at buttons. GUI's are like diapers; with time, you grow
> out of them.

I'm starting to worry that I always disagree with you. Let me just start
by saying that I respect you quite a bit. That said...

You're just plain wrong. Witness web browsing: sure you can do it
without a gui, but who wants to? I choose to use Evolution because the
GUI makes me more productive. Heck, even pine and mutt recognize this by
trying create a text based gui. You only have the right to dispute this
point if you use mail/mailx and telnet to port 80.

Text based interfaces are powerful. So are GUIs. Each should be used as
appropriate. Truly powerful and flexible programs have both.

-- 
Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

#define FALSE 0 /* This is the naked Truth */
#define TRUE  1 /* and this is the Light   */ -- mailto.c


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