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"Tired of displaying raw text on Console?" Nope. I am a scripter. I will never get tired of raw text, but I sure get tired of GUIs, fast. If the author had pitched this as a way to make the scripter's scripts accessible to others who do not understand scripts, I would have a different response.
My pitch for zenity would be - "Need a prototype gui for users that struggle in the console? Consider zenity."
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Last sentence of the first paragraph "But if it is used by a general audience it is obviously good to have some user friendly interactions."
I stopped reading after the sentence I quoted. If he had led with a title like "Tired of GUIs...", then I would have kept reading. It's the pitch I am commenting on, not the software. I want more "raw text", not less.
"Tired of displaying raw text on Console?" Nope. I am a scripter. I will never get tired of raw text, but I sure get tired of GUIs, fast. If the author had pitched this as a way to make the scripter's scripts accessible to others who do not understand scripts, I would have a different response.
I'm also a scripter and love the CLI but notify-send is really nice to be alerted when locally-executed long-running scripts end (for example, a terraform plan)
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I stopped reading after the sentence I quoted. If he had led with a title like "Tired of GUIs...", then I would have kept reading. It's the pitch I am commenting on, not the software. I want more "raw text", not less.
So you didn't read the article and stopped after reading the subhead yet you felt the need to comment anyway.
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I stopped reading after the sentence I quoted. If he had led with a title like "Tired of GUIs...", then I would have kept reading. It's the pitch I am commenting on, not the software. I want more "raw text", not less.
So you didn't read the article and stopped after reading the subhead yet you felt the need to comment anyway.
This is such a backwards way of thinking. Like modernizing math by using little colored blocks with symbols written on them, because your tired of using boring old white and black pencil and paper... It's what you do to entertain children into being interested in something, not how adults get stuff done.
I remember having to use TI-83 for school. Back then, some people taught the same about the calculator.
Also, sounds like you'd oppose syntax highlighting. I like making e.g. my PS1 colorful. The problem is when other's force their color scheme upon you, like mIRC colors, or website themes (!!).
Can’t read the article, guess I’m out of free reads this month/week. I wish there was some kind of rule against posting medium.com links on HN. That would incentivise people to use some other tools, for example dev.to or personal blogs.
Just block cookies on medium.com and enjoy the paywall-free experience. On Chrome, click the lock icon in the address bar, hit "Cookies", select "medium.com" and block. Then refresh.
I block cookies using a local proxy. I cannot rely on Chrome "features" for anything privacy-related. They just keep changing.
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I stopped reading after the sentence I quoted. If he had led with a title like "Tired of GUIs...", then I would have kept reading. It's the pitch I am commenting on, not the software. I want more "raw text", not less.
So you didn't read the article and stopped after reading the subhead yet you felt the need to comment anyway.