On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:45:24AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> c) it auto-pages if run on a tty
Hmmm. That's not necessarily what people are expecting, but okay.
To expand on this: there is a general expectation that non-interactive
console tools will return control to the user immediately. Auto-paging is a
different user-experience that doesn't necessarily dovetail with the Linux
lineage. UI and UX aren't _just_ for GUI programs, after all. If we want to
sell journalctl (and systemd in general) as a step forward for sysadmins, we
need to take the sysadmin user commmunity's UI expectations seriously.
Compared to the other things I mentioned this is less important (because
hey, sysadmins can learn new ways!), but I wanted to elaborate on where this
is coming from.
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