On 01/02/2015 08:48 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
Okay, lets do a thought experiment. Is a console application anything
that exists in /usr/bin? If not, what additional rules are required
for a "sane" set? Are all files in /usr/bin "applications"?
Actually, yes, I believe that every one of them serves a purpose, and
was important enough for someone to sit down and write the code to do it.
Richard, I do appreciate what you're trying to do---part of Unix'
'newbie-unfriendly' reputation is the 'black window' mentality and lack
of regard for aesthetics (viz. Linus' recent hilarious rant about "emo
terminals"
https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/Wh3qTjMMbLC ).
I agree that Linux has to get better in this respect, because it makes
it a better environment, and helps it compete with Android/MacOS/Windows.
Still there is a ton of things that are trivial with CLI and
surprisingly hard without it. Not all of them are geeky or developy:
just the other day, I was looking at an SD card from my camera; the
JPEGS were in a standard DCIM directory, but the video files were hidden
under multiple levels of non-obviously-named directories. Finding them
on Windows was quite frustrating, whereas on Linux it was simply "find .
-size +99999"
The executive summary: I hope there's a way to improve the pretty
graphical interfaces without relegating the CLI to some second-class status.