On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:16 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Terminals should not be thought of as power-users only; they're useful > > for everybody. > > Completely, totally disagree. Every time a non-developer/non-sysadmin > has to use the terminal for something is a bug. This is the most <censored/> argument I've seen on this thread. http://www.linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php Any argument derived from this logic is totally absurd. Non-shell usage for many things typically involves an amount of user action AND knowledge several times bigger. There's nothing hard on the following requirement: edit a text file with well documented comments to change preferences. A text file configuration has all those things that until now no GUI developer has ever been able to bring about, like finding a certain configuration option, for instance. And I don't mean "use vi" as a principle. Just remember one of GUI's main functions: people, who haven't yet a developed enough level of abstraction (due to age, intellect, etc...) > Autocad is a very specialized tool for a particular audience. You can > probably assume that most of its users spend 8 hours a day for years in > front of it and that any time they can save helps a lot. What you say is actually true for more and more of "office" jobs. What saves more time: a simple alias that disguises an ldapsearch command (like "phone Someone") or opening an ldap client (like some MUAs) clicking the right button then locating "Someone"? My gf works at a Portuguese "k-mart"-style shop, in the office, and the stories I hear... so frequently they would improve a thousandfold their performance should they use some simple combinations of TEXT USER INTERFACE commands... a pity they use Windows... OOPS! Main pattern here: commands suck, UI rules => this is true in BAD operating systems Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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