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From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Subject: RE: user friendliest gui
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> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:51:44 +0000
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: RE: user friendliest gui
>
> My users here,  "no gui" = "machine is broken"
>
> ________________________________
> From: Eitan Adler [mailto:lists@eitanadler.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:48 PM
> To: Gary Gatten
> Cc: Jean-Paul Natola; FreeBSD Mailing List
> Subject: Re: user friendliest gui
>
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> wrote:
> If that's all your doing on that system, maybe some restricted shell with 
> automagical scan script would be fine?  Just a thought.  Avoid GUI's if you
> can!
>
> Why? For most users GUIs are far easier to understand and use.

Why??  Because, In this case, the GUI is entirely -un-necessary-.  The user
doesn't have to do anything other than stick the flash drive in the USB port.

The machine does everything else.  *WITHOUT* any further user intervention 
required.

Why bother with the GUI, when there is no inter-actiona required?