Re: Semi-transparent box on desktop

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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