On 10/09/2012 05:00 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:45:24AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >>> c) it auto-pages if run on a tty >> Hmmm. That's not necessarily what people are expecting, but okay. > To expand on this: there is a general expectation that non-interactive > console tools will return control to the user immediately. Auto-paging is a > different user-experience that doesn't necessarily dovetail with the Linux > lineage. UI and UX aren't _just_ for GUI programs, after all. If we want to > sell journalctl (and systemd in general) as a step forward for sysadmins, we > need to take the sysadmin user commmunity's UI expectations seriously. > > Compared to the other things I mentioned this is less important (because > hey, sysadmins can learn new ways!), but I wanted to elaborate on where this > is coming from. +1. For example swapping action and name parameters for systemctl compared to service calls is just annoying. -- Richard Marko -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
