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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:26 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??
Message-ID:  <20101112004926.GB35128@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <4cd9127d.u5WgVW7/5NthFOf6%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <20101106203213.GC13095@guilt.hydra> <20101106225446.GC67566@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20101107101750.00006bd2@unknown> <20101107174106.GB77433@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20101107185845.66745df2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101107205122.GE17565@guilt.hydra> <20101107220729.000048f6@unknown> <20101107224109.GB2204@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20101108103008.190bb967.freebsd@edvax.de> <4cd9127d.u5WgVW7/5NthFOf6%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:21:01AM -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>=20
> > The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid
> > using language elements, CLI. Arranging windows, presenting
> > information, displaying structures, managing things. GUI
> > alone, with no functional substance behind it, is useless.
> > Sadly, you'll find more and more programs that have blingbling
> > and "experience", but are useless to those who want to achieve
> > a certain goal with it.
>=20
> Another strength, potentially large but all-too-frequently
> overlooked entirely, is as a learning aid.  In the situation
> that operations in the GUI map reasonably well to TUI commands
> -- which by definition includes cases in which the GUI is used
> as a front-end to issue commands to an external TUI-based program
> -- the GUI really should have a mode wherein it displays or logs
> the TUI commands that it is performing.

I agree.  That is one type of GUI I would really love to see getting more
popular.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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