Le dimanche 17 juillet 2005 à 18:12 -0400, Jeff Spaleta a écrit : > On 7/17/05, Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And unfortunately it's a bad distinction. > > The real one is repetitive/non repetitive tasks. > > Anything repetitive will always be better served by a rigid interface > > like a terminal, not something as changing as the GUI. > > > > Just go look at any POS system - you'll never find even such a basic > > thing as a mouse cursor. And the people using them have no CS doctorates > > (at least most of them) > > Are you on crack? There are many POS systems that have 'GUIS" and and > driven by a touch screen interface instead of a "mouse" without > exposing a terminal or a full keyboard. So what ? They're still closer by an order of magnitude to classical text apps than to a GUI in the Gnome sense. They have no windows. They use text everywhere. No icons. etc... Sometimes they purposefully use a motif-like dark on grey interface (even if the underlying toolkit is more capable) just because that's what the operators are used to, and in the real world same as before is better than changed and slightly improved. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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