Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> There are always exceptions to the rule. Mandrake Control Center has
> been singulary impressive. Kudos Mandrake....but the GUI incurs an
> additional penalty that no one seems to realize except the
> ignorant-user-savvy MicroSoft Corporation. And that is, simply, it
> divides the user from the CLI and weakens them in that regard. How? By
> just giving you an avenue that you don't have to create new neural
> pathways for in order to handle. So the learning curve gets shorter and
> more shallow, but the user's power is greatly curtailed. M$ wants this
> because their interface is more akin to heroin for ignorant users than
> it is a teaching tool. And addiction is exactly what they are after.
I like using the Mandrake Control Center because it's convenient. But yea,
this results in my sometimes scratching my head when I'm trying to figure
out how to do it from the shell. And when I'm remote and using a ssh
session to access my machine, this can be really annoying. :-) What I'd
like to see is that when you try to apply your change from the MCC, that it
pop up a window showing you what shell commands it's going to execute in
order to meet your change request. *That* would be helpful (at least, to
me :), since at the very least, it shows me what command needs to be run,
and then when I'm running from a remote ssh login, something in the back of
my brain will be likely to say, "hey, isn't command <x> the one that does
this?" and then I can start attacking the man page.
Just a thought....
--Dave
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