Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:07:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: user friendliest gui Message-ID: <201005111907.o4BJ7A2M007162@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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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?
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