Semi-transparent box on desktop

[Tom Holroyd]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:55 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

Seconded. GUIs are not scriptable. Complex primitives are good.

Dr. Tom
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