From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 18:29:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30C21065672 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:29:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.54.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5E748FC20 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5583 invoked by uid 0); 12 Nov 2010 18:29:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 12 Nov 2010 18:29:34 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=P7bQNZkq7G0oQuwquqTNp5W+a9NULDMMntFewQlnpwZzKFi1l/8YtyLDrz0DllkkBbWcQ/X55YhIVQXak2O1kvxsEGeDHPWotYtDs6HAjUgFgWNpdEORzeZ3bjU60HyX; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGyNR-00077r-1p for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:29:34 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:23:22 -0700 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:23:22 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101112182322.GB40175@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="98e8jtXdkpgskNou" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101112191438.241de8fc.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:29:35 -0000 --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 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--