Re: Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

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On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 18:42 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Sure, I use Internet, Mail, Office etc. using Gnome Desktop.
> But for some tasks it is more convenient for me to use TUI (vi, mc, even 
> lynx) instead of GUI. Perhaps because I started at 1992 when good GUI 
> was yet not present...
> 
> Actually, I cannot forget TUI/CLI anyway. I still work sometimes by slow 
> phone lines (ppp), by a mobile communicator, or at the dumb terminal 
> connected to com port of a server. Sometimes I have a graphical monitor, 
> but it is too old to see good GUI on it. Etc...
> 
> Besides that, I prefer to know that anything what I do manually, I can 
> script in a shell. What about GUI?..

GUI doesn't mean !shell.  gnome-terminal for example, it's a terminal
emulator, you get a CLI.   You can full screen it too so it's "like" a
VT, but you gain all the extra fun of showing the gliphs correctly and
being able to use things like a char map or the compose key.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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