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Re: GUIs (was: Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com)



On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:50:23AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 04, 2022 12:58:45 AM tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > [1] Don't you hate GUIs? Describing how to do a simple thing ends up in
> >    reams of difficult-to-understand text.
> 
> +1 sometimes, but sometimes they offer a much easier way to do things with less 
> learning required -- there is a tradeoff (at least for some of us in some 
> cases) -- ease of use vs. ease of describing to someone else.
> 
> It would be nice if there was a simpler way to describe things -- maybe if all 
> GUI actions had a corresponding way to invoke from the CLI, and then the 
> description might start with the CLI command(s).

Yes, it's a hard-to-solve equation :)

Cheers
-- 
t

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