Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Feb 2008 20:46 UTC, submitted by irbis
"It's one of the more popular culture wars in the free software community: GUI versus CLI (graphics versus the command-line). Programmers, by selection, inclination, and long experience, understandably are attracted to textual interactions with the computer, but the text interface was imposed originally by technological limitations. The GUI was introduced as a reply to those problems, but has undergone very little evolution from 1973 (when it was invented at Xerox PARC) to today. So why can't we do better than either of these tired old systems?"
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RE[3]: Two parts to the essay
by marafaka on Mon 11th Feb 2008 10:42
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RE[4]: Two parts to the essay
by TemporalBeing on Mon 11th Feb 2008 15:28
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I do it by typing pic_i[TAB][ENTER] on my machine; but the point here is, that you can not generally automate the WIMP software.
Actually you can - by using tools such as Tk and Tcl. DejuGNU (build on Tcl/Tk) does this quite well to produce fully automated GUI test suites to ensure GUI components work well.
I think the bigger issues comes down to that a lot of programmers don't like writing GUIs, so they avoid them - despite the fact that GUIs are a lot, lot friendlier to end-users.
You can do almost anything with a GUI. But 'plugging' different applications together through GUI components is a bit harder - but, as I said above - it can be done. You just have to adjust your toolkit appropriately, which may mean learning another programming language that can do the job (like it or not).
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(I know you meant this rhetorically, but I like a challenge, forgive me from doing this off-hand......)
Win+F, select directory(s), tab into screen, App+R, "* - %d", shift-tab one back into the filter screen, "X > Y", tab back into selection screen, App+O, choose the program that'll rotate them (don't know which would be best off hand), Ctrl+C, App+N, name your directory, Enter, Ctrl+V, Alt+E, L, Win+No, Ctrl-V, Ctrl+P.