* On 2016 16 Apr 16:04 -0500, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:19:44PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > > Le 16/04/2016 19:47, Noel Torres a écrit : > > > > > >I regularly use aptitude's CUI (I use to name it as text-mode > > >GUI). Mostly because it has that wonderful "Mark as automatically > > >installed" mode, that allows packages to be more easily updated or > > >removed. > > > > I'm afraid I've forged the acronym CUI sometimes in 2015, while > > reading/writing this mailing list. Or I've read it somewhere and I > > just repeated it without noticing. Anyway it's shorter than > > "text-mode GUI" :-) > > > > I think the usual acronym to indicate "an interface based on ncurses" > is TUI, which obviously stands for Text-based User Interface.
Either term is understandable to me. I do see erroneous references to such interfaces as CLI around the Web. To be sure, many [TC]UI have an amount of CLI coded into them. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
