David Bendit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:42 AM, George Toft wrote: >>> Eben realized that the GUI was the death of language. The >>> "caveman interface", he called it, since it reduced the >>> user to pointing and grunting.
To be fair, modern mice allow the caveman to make 5 or more different types of grunts. And think about trying to use Gimp without a pointing device of some sort. It wouldn't work that well. Language is a Swiss Army Chainsaw, sure, but there are times when a simple hammer gets the job done faster. >> "The main purpose of a GUI is to support multiple xterms." > Pfft. Who needs xterms when you have screen properly configured? Multiple overlapping windows can be nice when you have to monitor stuff while working on other stuff. And resizing a VC is in general more difficult than resizing an xterm. And I've heard too many reports of video cards where if you try to use DVI, you don't see a thing until X starts up (no POST or BIOS Setup without VGA, yikes.) --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
