Re: cli options
Dexter Filmore <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:17:22 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usability.annoyances |
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| Organization | SCHWA Corporation |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> > > And here is where it might profit from the open src idea: everybody can > > contribute and have a look at it. > > No matter how loud the geeks are yelling at me, Linux *does* need some > > standards. > > There are already so many standards. (which are not always adhered to) That's why I pointed out sane standards. Standards develpers would *like* to adhere to. > > > (And more GUIs :) ) > > For superstitious reasons one would suppose twelve window managers would be > enough to satisfy most users. Would you like to add 'Linux needs more > editors'? I didn't mean "more GUI making systems" I meant more GUIs where we have bash. Let alone for package management, and may it be ncurses. (in fact, i lkie ncurses). Or doy ou really think "make config" is a good tool to configure the kernel? > > So I hear 'Linux needs standards' and 'Linux needs GUIs', now how about > standardising the GUI? (Credit for this insight goes to my sister, who > wanted to know, given that there lots of different applications for the same > purpose, why should the user interfaces all be wildly different, even for > different versions of the same Operating System). Applications are far less > standardised than command syntax. Full ACK. with interoperable drag n drop.