Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
A well designed GUI is able to wrap around the CLI of cdrecord, mkisofs,
readcd, cdda2wav and give you additional functionality that users do not have
directly with the CLI commands.
Of course, there are always bad examples ;-)
Jörg
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