From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 29 16:28:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DFC15277 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 16:28:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12EiE9-0002Wf-00; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:28:29 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA88592; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:28:29 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:28:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUIs are flawed In-Reply-To: <20000129163556.A69961@tougas.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, i agree, the command line is very powerful and can be inherently more stable and maintainable. However, most people in this day and age of quick results don't have thhe time to read a manual and learn a myriad options to do what they want and get punished and have to type the whole line again if they make an error. People want point-and-click, and i think that has its place. Apparently M$ is trying to develop a concept based on COM++ and OLE and ActiveZ that allows many small controls to be tied together with standard interfaces, similar to a pipe, i guess. These little applet would be smaller and more easily maintained. Maybe this is the direction we are heading for the future, especially on the Net. -=> jm <=- "Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message