On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:17:21PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 13:11 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Desktops as such don't hide complexity, they just mask it with a different complexity. A simple desktop may hide complexity but then so may a simple window manager with a different paradigm, how about TWM with a single xterm window on it?
So are you against a GUI interface in general and the Desktop concept is just part of that paradigm ?
No, I'm against the computer pretending that it's something it isn't. Cars very quickly stopped looking like horse drawn carriages without the horse, that was an early approach, they soon developed their own image. The computer seems to be trying to pretend it's something else.
I am not saying there isn't a place for terminal windows and text mode only software...there is and it can be (with the help of a decent shell) very very powerful, more so that even the best designed GUI's. But for some tasks it is easier...it is more intuitive and frankly it just makes sense.
Yes, but not by pretending to be something that it isn't.