Thursday, April 8, 2010

Re: gui dialogs

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:13 -0700, Tom Link wrote:
>
> ...I personally would rather like to see text-only GUI widgets.

A Graphical User Interface requires graphical elements with which to
interface. In the experiments I've done in Vim with "clickable text",
it is about the most baffling interface non-command liners have ever
seen. It doesn't work. (Except for those who would rather just type at
the command line. :)

Now I suppose if you could create a more "web like" text page,
complete with underlines, highlighting, and mouse-overs, then you
might have something. Think elinks.cz. But it would be a huge pain,
a real GUI toolkit would be much easier.

--
Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]


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