Re: [Sheflug] https

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> 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.

Hmm. I don't know if that is the case. The traditional text admin stuff
has been developed and maintained for years; there is little point in
changing something to a different interface if people have been using it
and are used to it. Whereas, the 'newbie' unix market is relatively
undeveloped. It's kind of like urban regeneration: the old, crusty
buildings in the city have their mortar repointed once in a while, while
the new stuff is built around the outskirts. Occasionally, a large
development complete regenerates part of the city to modern standards.

>  >> 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.)

It was you talking about 'prompt and answer' - I took that to mean
something like make config ;)) 

> 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".

Hmmmm... has a command line, also has a text edit box, both places where I
can type stuff in, and I can change the focus between... does vi count?!

(I'm being provocative now, I think ;)

Cheers,

Alex.


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