And besides, it's much easier to build a GUI app in front of a C API than a command line application.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Robert J. Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: >> And then, it is not difficult to build a GUI app on top of a >> command-line tool that works properly. I cannot do it, but somebody >> maybe can do it easily. > > Oh, it's *hard*. Look at how long it took Enigmail to get into a state > where it wasn't painful to use -- and there are still, today, parts > about it that give me the heebie-jeebies. (Admittedly, I don't have a > good fix for it, but...) > > User interface design is a hard subject. It requires a much different > set of skills than software development, particularly cognitive > psychology. Look at how much money Apple spends making user interfaces; > they're not throwing that much money at the problem because it's easy. ;) > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
