On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:50, Steve Holdoway wrote: > (This is a really bad example, as we're going to have to write really > small to get /etc on a floppy (: ). Thank you for pointing out that vital point.
> > I've spent most of my life behind 80x24 character monitors, where the > > command line is your favourite deity ( and, to be honest, I do prefer > > it ), �but if it were that good, then why invent a mouse? So we can pay the medics to fix the resultant RSI / OOS problems. It all depends if you find burrowing through 'dozens' of cascaded menus in the WM in order to find that one command that you could type in just a few characters to be more to your taste or not. It isn't to mine I just cannot remember all the slots. I think the KDE idea of the F2 activated single line cli to be just wonderful. Good to see the Gnome folks have taken it up too. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell.
