On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:26 -0700, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:21:01AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > > > > > The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid > > > using language elements, CLI. Arranging windows, presenting > > > information, displaying structures, managing things. GUI > > > alone, with no functional substance behind it, is useless. > > > Sadly, you'll find more and more programs that have blingbling > > > and "experience", but are useless to those who want to achieve > > > a certain goal with it. > > > > Another strength, potentially large but all-too-frequently > > overlooked entirely, is as a learning aid. In the situation > > that operations in the GUI map reasonably well to TUI commands > > -- which by definition includes cases in which the GUI is used > > as a front-end to issue commands to an external TUI-based program > > -- the GUI really should have a mode wherein it displays or logs > > the TUI commands that it is performing. > > I agree. That is one type of GUI I would really love to see getting more > popular.
You can already find this concept in use: The Midnight Commander, allthough a text-based program (but NOT a CLI program!) integrates command line and "abstracted" operations. It has excellent keyboard AND mouse support. Another program that comes to my mind is mencoder + gmencoder. The gmencoder offers a GUI wrapper for the mencoder program. You can keep using this GUI program for one-time use, or use the mencoder command line program for scripting. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
