On 27 May 2010, at 20:42, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote:

> Personally, all my use of iPlayer content is to fetch something I'm
> already aware of; I'm not just browsing randomly. And for that, I find
> that a command line tool gives a _much_ better experience than any
> point-and-drool GUI could ever provide.

You're missing two very important words there: for you.

> But there _are_ GUI tools which make use of get_iplayer, such as the
> get_iplayer.cgi script which runs a local web server and points your
> browser at it. They haven't received a lot of love because most people
> with sufficient clue to work on them don't really _care_ about such
> things.

I think Kieran's point is that they should. That's what will drive widespread 
adoption.

Cheers
Jonathan 
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