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.