On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:16 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Terminals should not be thought of as power-users only;
they're useful
> for everybody.
Completely, totally disagree. Every time a non-developer/non-sysadmin
has to use the terminal for something is a bug.
This is the most <censored/> argument I've seen on this thread.
http://www.linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php
Any argument derived from this logic is totally absurd.
Non-shell usage for many things typically involves an amount of user
action AND knowledge several times bigger.
There's nothing hard on the following requirement:
edit a text file with well documented comments to change preferences.
A text file configuration has all those things that until now no GUI
developer has ever been able to bring about, like finding a certain
configuration option, for instance.
And I don't mean "use vi" as a principle.
Just remember one of GUI's main functions: people, who haven't yet a
developed enough level of abstraction (due to age, intellect, etc...)
Autocad is a very specialized tool for a particular audience. You
can
probably assume that most of its users spend 8 hours a day for years in
front of it and that any time they can save helps a lot.
What you say is actually true for more and more of "office" jobs.
What saves more time:
a simple alias that disguises an ldapsearch command (like "phone
Someone")
or
opening an ldap client (like some MUAs) clicking the right button then
locating "Someone"?
My gf works at a Portuguese "k-mart"-style shop, in the office, and the
stories I hear... so frequently they would improve a thousandfold their
performance should they use some simple combinations of TEXT USER
INTERFACE commands... a pity they use Windows...
OOPS! Main pattern here: commands suck, UI rules
=> this is true in BAD operating systems
Rui
--
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?
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