Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:21:01 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd@edvax.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? Message-ID: <4cd9127d.u5WgVW7/5NthFOf6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20101108103008.190bb967.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AANLkTi=WvFCUqd9P_CPRzL6A7f06eAuEb-sj6kEjVWuv@mail.gmail.com> <20101106190934.GB67566@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20101106200239.00004b64@unknown> <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>
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > 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. 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.
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