Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:23:22 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? Message-ID: <20101112182322.GB40175@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20101112191438.241de8fc.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <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> <20101112004926.GB35128@guilt.hydra> <20101112191438.241de8fc.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--98e8jtXdkpgskNou Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:14:38PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:26 -0700, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wro= te: > >=20 > > I agree. That is one type of GUI I would really love to see getting mo= re > > popular. >=20 > You can already find this concept in use: The Midnight Commander, > allthough a text-based program (but NOT a CLI program!) integrates > command line and "abstracted" operations. It has excellent keyboard > AND mouse support. >=20 > Another program that comes to my mind is mencoder + gmencoder. The > gmencoder offers a GUI wrapper for the mencoder program. You can > keep using this GUI program for one-time use, or use the mencoder > command line program for scripting. The type of program I specifically meant was the sort of thing that actually tells the user the command that would perform the same task as the button-click, so that users of the GUI (or captive interface TUI) would get to see what is going on behind the scenes and perhaps learn from it. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --98e8jtXdkpgskNou Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzdhhoACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUzHgCfbhcgOHnd7k9qzuw7Fvxj50ck 9cQAn0sNwHHbPX4JTZ3vZ2lRt87SDp+6 =SDmW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --98e8jtXdkpgskNou--
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