On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:55, Stuart Jansen wrote: > 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.
I'm still waiting for `ls` to have a GUI... I'd still count it as truly powerful and flexible. -- Kekoa Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
