On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 04:10 -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > I have yet to see any GUI that really does the above, although otherwise > hideous AIX's rather nice "smit" tries hard.
One reason for that is that GUIs don't necessarily map 1-to-1 onto CLI commands, or vice versa. CLIs tend to be modal and procedural, a good GUI is often the opposite. Indeed, most of the worst GUIs I've seen are just thin wrappers around a pre-existing CLI command, with a bunch of text fields and checkboxes that require you to be familiar with the CLI command anyway. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
