Am 02.01.2015 um 21:05 schrieb Miloslav Trmač:
Here, GUIs _as a category_ (not necessarily the GUIs we are currently
providing) should always be better than CLIs _as a category_ simply because the GUI can in
the worst case just copy the CLI layout and behavior so it will not be worse than a CLI;
and then there are all the graphics and mouse interactions and shadows and animation that
a GUI can do but a CLI can’t.
no it can't
a gui for "grep file | grep -v x | grep -y | sort | uniq | awk... >
newfile" is impossible because you *never* can build a GUI that is the
same way flexiable and still useable
And there is a major difficulty: doing 2) before 1) is done can be
counter-productive, counter-productivity or in the worst case just dishonest; but doing 1)
without 2) is likely impossible if the CLI capabilities keep expanding faster than we can
add GUI interfaces to the same capabilities. So I can see a case for being vocal about
“nobody should need to use a terminal” even now; but that case critically depends on the
ability of the community to actually write the better non-terminal interfaces.
but you can't and won't use the GUI the same way on remote machines over
slow lines as you can use a CLI and hence smart, short and repeatable
tasks are done in shell-scripts because a "ssh user@host
/usr/local/bin/task.sh" is done before you remote GUI even starts