Tom Holroyd wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:25 -0400, max bianco wrote:
I thought this post was a joke too. No offense but i did not think
there was anyone using a computer today that didn't know you could
grab multiple objects like that, i am glad everyone is so thrilled , a
rare enough occurrence around here, but this is pretty basic
functionality. I would never have guessed it would cause so much
excitement.
There was a post the other day about accidental rebooting which was
obviously a joke, but it seems people didn't get it. It's hard to tell
in email if you are joking (that's why we use smilies).
If you grew up using the command line like I did the desktop is more of
an annoyance. A guy once looked at my screen and said, "it doesn't look
like you are using a window manager at all! Is that just bare X?"
I like to right click to open up the app menu and select "terminal," but
that's about it. Oh and the workspace pager obviously. And the clock.
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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
