Semi-transparent box on desktop
Tom Holroyd
tomh at kurage.nimh.nih.gov
Tue Mar 18 15:05:48 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:55 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I like X because you can run dozens of windows at once and cut/paste
> among them, but mine mostly tend to be terminals too. The really
> annoying thing about GUIs is that there's no way to describe or repeat
> what you just did. On the command line, you can do some complicated set
> of operations, then scroll back through your command history and
> cut/paste it into a script file and you'll be able to repeat that set of
> operations as often as you want on as many machines as you want. With a
> GUI, you can't even tell someone else how to do what you just did and
> its just as hard to repeat it yourself as it was the first time.
Seconded. GUIs are not scriptable. Complex primitives are good.
Dr. Tom
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