Re: [Sheflug] https

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    >> and access to documentation through the GUI.  But GUI is
    >> inherently biased to the lowest commmon denominator.

    Al> Hmmm. GUIs are *accessible* to the lcd; biased sounds a little
    Al> elitist ;)

Your example of Dreamweaver shows that it's possible to provide a
professional GUI.  But as Matt Palmer points out, mostly pros for the
classic admin/text stuff already know how to do it ... those GUIs will
be written with newbies in mind.  Thus the bias.

    >> Or maybe they were using Debian and got exactly the same result
    >> from a non-GUI prompt and answer session.
    >> 
    >> What, then, is the benefit of GUI?

    Al> Would you rather make config or make menuconfig when compiling
    Al> linux?

make menuconfig.

But that's a straw man.  I see the choice as `make menuconfig'
vs. `emacs .config'.  (vi would be fine, of course.)

As for the definition of GUI, I would pretty much consider anything
that has a notion of input focus finer than "the whole terminal" as
"GUI".

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