Re: Reflections on Gnome from longtime GUI User..

[George <jirka 5z com>]

Quoting Andreas Kostyrka (andreas@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at):
> On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, George wrote:
> 
> > yes leave it in there (the view command line I mean) .. we don't want
> > gnome to be the "you're too stupid to know what's going on" kind
> > of GUI ... now ... do we ....
> The same applies to printing: It should be always possible to specify the
> print command like in xv. (Applix allows only to select a printer from
> printcap. So what do I do, if I want to print across the internet? ssh
> -z9 server lpr -Pprinteratserver?)

or pipe it though a filter ...(say something like mpage ...) ...
though applix isn't too unixey in a lot of respects (printing being
one of them) ... but staroffice isn't a unix app at all (it looks like
they have written win95 for linux :) ...

I doubt hiding stuff from the user is the way to go ... if a person gets
offended by having a choice .. maybe he should use a different desktop

actually I would even go for the prospect of modifying the command line
in the find app .... the find app can never do everything that uyuouu can
do on teh command line .... (do it on teh command line you say) ... well
what if there is a reason I want them to appear in a file manager window
... for example ... I want to find some files by some weird command line
and I wish to put those files into the file manager window to selectively
pick a few and do something on them with the file man ...

George

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