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On Thursday 14 November 2002 16:00, Anthony B. Coates wrote: > ** Reply to message from Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...> on Thu, > 14 Nov 2002 11:59:36 +0000 > > > McGrath's Conspiracy theory of technology complexity: > > "Any software technology that positively, absolutely needs a GUI > > is probably more complicated than is strictly necessary." > > > > :-) > > Yeah, yeah. Are you still running DOS then? Do you always boot Linux up > to a command prompt and eschew the use of X, Gnome, or KDE? Or is there a > light touch of hypocracy here?? :-) The world has voted with its feet > (with its mice?) for GUIs. That's not the point. Sean's comment was that technology should not *need* a GUI, not that he wants to always use a CLI for everything. It's more a statement that he wants to be *able* to do whatever he likes with a CLI, should the need arise. For example, if he were blind. As many computer users are, and many more probably would be if software weren't so wedded to the concept of a two dimensional pixel array. I would add a clause to exclude things that have a genuinely graphical problem domain such as image editing, but otherwise, I generally agree as a rough rule of thumb. > Cheers, > Tony. ABS -- A city is like a large, complex, rabbit - ARP
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