I agree that each is best for different uses. Using a graphical
interface to run daemons would be asinine. And when you want to
process multiple files, sometimes the command line is the only way.
But I and many others do not want to have to understand every detail
of every program and memorize everything as is needed to run a
command line program for everything. I use the menus to select what I
want like a menu at a restaurant - I know enough about computers to
understand what to do next and what does what. If I had to memorize
everything I would not be able to figure out how to use new programs
without taking months of solid training for each one. Maybe I would
use the command line more if the man pages were easier to understand.
On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:00 PM, André Wyrwa wrote:
You are probably aware of that you are missing some points:
- There are different use cases in some of which CLI has
advantages, in
others GUI has advantages. (To give you an equally one-sided example:
No, i do not want to create graphics via CLI or write them in the
shape
of an XML file.)
- A GUI is easily discoverable, a CLI is not.
- A GUI is attractive (if done right), a CLI is not. Attractiveness
matters, even if it's not adding/partly deminishing productivity.
André.
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 06:31 +0000, Jonathon Blake wrote:
Chris wrote:
A GUI interface is intrinsically user hostile,and best avoided.
Any GUI is going to be "awful:" and dysfunctional. The only
question
is how dysfunctional it is going to be.
with that kind of attitude a lot of the stuff i see in the
openoffice
'user experience' makes a lot more sense
I forgot to include the trivial example.
Add 1 000 colours to the colour palette of OOo, using the GUI.
Add 1 000 colours to the colour palette of OOo, by editing the raw
file.
Which one takes less time?
Which one is easier to do?
I know which option I use, when I create new OOo colour palettes.
To create my 16^8 colour palette for OOo, I cheated, by writing a
python script to generate it for me.
As I said, that is the trivial example, that clearly demonstrates the
unproductive nature of a GUI.
xan
jonathon
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