On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:14:38PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:26 -0700, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > > > > 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.
The type of program I specifically meant was the sort of thing that actually tells the user the command that would perform the same task as the button-click, so that users of the GUI (or captive interface TUI) would get to see what is going on behind the scenes and perhaps learn from it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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