On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 04:02 +0530, A. Mani wrote: > Hello, > The discussion on the postcolonial aspects and ... is related. > > It may be that the best GUIs are found in Linux. But it is essentially the > inflexible design which is bad. If we need to make changes beyond a level we > need to virtually build it up. > > GUIs should be composable. If X is a program, then there must be a set F(X) > of > admissible GUIs from which we must be able to select our desired GUI or > compose it from some criteria. So long as this is not easily available, GUIs > are condemned by design. This applies to GUIs of applications and also the > desktops.
So basically you're saying, we need choices, which Linux gives us. Agreed. Very good. But this was *not* the point made by the document! The document says that the GUI is an imposition and to get escape from the shackles (of clerkdom) we need the CLI. In your last post, this is what you have said as well. I don't think that there was any dissension that Linux offers us choices which is good. I think this is a given. So shouldn't we really argue the points proposed in the document, rather than get sideline into a thread about which I don't think there is much to argue about anyway? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- Entropy requires no maintenance. -- Markoff Chaney -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
