No more right click terminal

[Paul A Houle]

Colin Walters wrote:

>
>Completely, totally disagree.  Every time a non-developer/non-sysadmin
>has to use the terminal for something is a bug.
>  
>
    If that's the case,  you've got a lot of bugs to fix.

    I've been burnt so many times by bugs in Red Hat's GUI stuff that I 
just don't have time to waste with it.  I think of the guy (in a message 
last week on this list) who had NetworkManager blow out his resolv.conf 
settings...  Every time I hit "Ok" on one of those screens,  I'm afraid 
that it's going to lead to a disaster that's "Not Ok".

    All the time I see friends struggling to figure out how to do 
something in the GUI,  and I have them open up a command line and get 
the job quickly,  and correctly the first time,  even coaching them over 
the phone -- /etc/sysconfig is a Red Hat introduction that I like a 
great deal -- a little bit of time spent learning how to navigate there 
means you can configure RH machines easily,  X Windows or not.

    Maybe it's better now than it used to be,  but I'm set in my ways.  
If RH manages to ship GUI tools that work 99.99% of the time rather than 
80% of the time,  maybe a new generation of people will start using them.