On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:55 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I like X because you can run dozens of windows at once and cut/paste > among them, but mine mostly tend to be terminals too. The really > annoying thing about GUIs is that there's no way to describe or repeat > what you just did. On the command line, you can do some complicated set > of operations, then scroll back through your command history and > cut/paste it into a script file and you'll be able to repeat that set of > operations as often as you want on as many machines as you want. With a > GUI, you can't even tell someone else how to do what you just did and > its just as hard to repeat it yourself as it was the first time. Seconded. GUIs are not scriptable. Complex primitives are good. Dr. Tom -- There is nothing that grows more pleasingly on earth than a lofty, strong will: it is the finest growth. An entire landscape refreshes itself at one such tree. Thus spoke Zarathustra. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
