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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:21:01 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        freebsd@edvax.de
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??
Message-ID:  <4cd9127d.u5WgVW7/5NthFOf6%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101108103008.190bb967.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid
> using language elements, CLI. Arranging windows, presenting
> information, displaying structures, managing things. GUI
> alone, with no functional substance behind it, is useless.
> Sadly, you'll find more and more programs that have blingbling
> and "experience", but are useless to those who want to achieve
> a certain goal with it.

Another strength, potentially large but all-too-frequently
overlooked entirely, is as a learning aid.  In the situation
that operations in the GUI map reasonably well to TUI commands
-- which by definition includes cases in which the GUI is used
as a front-end to issue commands to an external TUI-based program
-- the GUI really should have a mode wherein it displays or logs
the TUI commands that it is performing.



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