I agree with Nat. There are good GUIs and bad GUIs, just like there are
good command-line programs and bad command-line programs. Bad programs
are easy to write and good ones are hard. Conservation of "work" I think.
-James Holton
MAD Scientist
On 4/12/2013 10:38 AM, Nat Echols wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:27 AM, James Holton <jmhol...@lbl.gov
<mailto:jmhol...@lbl.gov>> wrote:
But, when it comes to GUIs, I have always found them
counterproductive. In my humble opinion, the purpose of computers
and other machines is to DO work for me, not create work for me,
and I already have enough buttons to push each day.
This is a very defensible position with regards to your normal
workflow (or mine) - but beamline scientists (or software developers)
are not very representative of crystallographers as a group. I've
seen a lot of reflexive anti-GUI mentality from users who don't fall
into either category, presumably because a senior postdoc or PI told
them "real crystallographers use the command line", when in reality
they'd be better served by figuring out on their own what workflow is
most efficient for them.
-Nat
