On Tuesday 28 October 2008 10:48:44 am G T Smith wrote:
There's no reason in 2008 to have to drop down to a 1980's UI.
Pardon, GUI is a 1980s technology... and frankly has not advanced much since then. GUI interfaces are good for those who need to work with a Computer but usually a royal pain for those who need on a computer. The CLI is lot more powerful than a GUI for a lot of tasks in the same way that phonetic alphabets are usually more useful and flexible than pictographic languages.
Yes, I know the GUI came out in the '80s. I still have a Macintosh SE. However, I was more referring to my TRS-80 and Apple II interfaces. However, there should be no reason a command-line should be more or less powerful than a gui. In this day, one should be able to choose. I don't have time or patience to remember command line options any more. I want to use my computer and having a menu available at a right-click is much more convenient. Let's take converting 100 pictures from 1024x768 to 640x480 for a slide show. I can do that in the CLI - with a little help - but I would much prefer right-clicking the pictures and then having some program be available for that purpose. Also - notice the word convenient in the previous paragraph. It was originally spelled wrong. Were I in the CLI, I would never know. Being in a GUI, I see it highlighted in red and am able to correct. /soapbox -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org