On Saturday 26 November 2005 04:56, Rajarshi Guha wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 04:02 +0530, A. Mani wrote: <snip> > > 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. > I am saying the choices are insufficient.
<snip> > 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 did not decide on that exactly. In fact the solution in the present situation can be by making the 'GUI as powerful as the CLI' and 'by replacing the GUI with the CLI wherever necessary'. This does mean that we need a proper program for the same. The design of which is more important. How many projects do we have on this? There is nothing wrong in advocating the CLI for most people. Only thing is the learning curve gets a bit difficult. This will be a more cost effective way of dealing with PCs in third world countries. This requires some preparation too. But we have the issues of competition from M$. In CS/IT locales at least we can try for the elimination of the GUI. The other dimension in all this is posed by the paradigm of literate programming "getting to specify so well as to eliminate coding". > I don't think that there was any dissension that Linux offers us choices > which is good. I think this is a given. > > So shouldn't we really argue the points proposed in the document, rather > than get sideline into a thread about which I don't think there is much > to argue about anyway? > You missed the point. Plenty of design aspects can be discussed. As far as bashing the M$ gui is concerned it is to be improved in the document. It needs to clarify many points. I think I will rather write an evaluation of the document. A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -- 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
