On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 21:02:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
<soapbox> This is one of the reasons I've completely given up
on the
whole "desktop metaphor" movement. It has become all glitz and
no
substance IMNSHO; all about this font vs. that font rather than
actually
solving real problems. Give me ratpoison and a bare terminal
emulator
any day, and my productivity gets boosted 300%. Even when I'm
using
Windows, that purportedly sports "better" UI design than Linux,
I find
myself spending more time fighting with the UI than actually
getting
anything done. The GUI emperor has no clothes, and I'm calling
BS on the
whole movement! </soapbox>
That's because GUIs are not aimed at highly technical power users
like you, but for most people, who don't want to memorize a bunch
of technical commands and barely know how to type. They would be
much slower with ratpoison and a terminal than you are with a
GUI. ;) Touch similarly brought computing to a billion more
people, while taking another step backwards in interaction
bandwidth from the desktop GUI. The cruder you make the tool,
the easier it is for people to grasp.
However, I'm looking forward to voice recognition and some sort
of hand gesture input becoming the dominant interfaces in the
coming years. Those will be even easier to use than anything so
far, and could be much faster than even your current
keyboard-driven software.
