Re: GUIs (was: Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com)

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
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Subject	Re: GUIs (was: Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com)
Date	2022-01-04 16:30 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:50:23AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 04, 2022 12:58:45 AM tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > [1] Don't you hate GUIs? Describing how to do a simple thing ends up in
> >    reams of difficult-to-understand text.
> 
> +1 sometimes, but sometimes they offer a much easier way to do things with less 
> learning required -- there is a tradeoff (at least for some of us in some 
> cases) -- ease of use vs. ease of describing to someone else.
> 
> It would be nice if there was a simpler way to describe things -- maybe if all 
> GUI actions had a corresponding way to invoke from the CLI, and then the 
> description might start with the CLI command(s).

Yes, it's a hard-to-solve equation :)

Cheers
-- 
t

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Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:10 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2022-01-03 23:20 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:20 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2022-01-03 23:40 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-04 00:30 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 01:00 +0100
        [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 01:10 +0100
          Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 19:20 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-01-04 21:30 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 19:40 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-04 20:40 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 21:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 22:10 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 06:20 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 14:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 18:30 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 18:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 19:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-05 22:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2022-01-04 21:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-04 22:30 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-05 06:20 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-05 13:50 +0100
            Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 19:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-03 23:40 +0100
    Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-03 23:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 00:30 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-04 00:40 +0100
          Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
          Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the  USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
        Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com RP <reyadmin@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 00:50 +0100
  Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 07:00 +0100
    [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2022-01-04 13:00 +0100
      Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for  the USPS.com <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 13:20 +0100
    GUIs (was: Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-01-04 15:00 +0100
      Re: GUIs (was: Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead  for the USPS.com) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-04 16:30 +0100

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