A graphical environment does have its advantages...I find the console web browsers inadiquit for lots of things (full javascript support, flash, adn java applets come to mind), and certain file management tasks are far easier in a guy then cli, such as copying files from a directory to somewhere else, where the multiple files to be copied are not contiguous. On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:43:05PM -0300, Cleverson wrote: > Hi Zack, > > In fact, I don't know if the term "desktop" aplies to people who prefer > command line programs rather than graphical ones, but I really think there > is no reason to use a graphical environment, since text mode is faster and I > think there are console programs for any task. > > For blind users, perhaps the only difference is that in text mode you should > memorize some command strings instead of key strokes. Nothing's hard, to me > at least... > > Cheers, > Cleverson > > "Be realistic; ask for the impossible." > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor op??o para voc?! > Experimente j? e veja as novidades. > http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts') -- Olaf Kirch
