Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

From	Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?
Date	2023-03-24 16:20 +0100
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coreyh@free.fr writes:

> Hello,
>
> Should CLI (command line interface) have a nice UI library?
> today web dev has so many libraries that make web pages with
> rich/colorful interactive views.
> But CLI is still in dull mode. That should be improved in these days.
> for example, run "df -h" we got the statistics with plain text. But
> web statistics for cloud storage (GCP,AWS etc) are chart like, which
> give people more intuitive feeling.
>
> Thanks
> Corey H.

I was very impressed with the signal meter in nmtui which I had not used
before until yesterday. It has those chunky graphic characters like
Teletext used to be. This sort of thing (I can't do it justice):

🬵🬻

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should CLI have a nice UI today? coreyh@free.fr - 2023-03-24 12:40 +0100
  Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2023-03-24 12:50 +0100
  Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-03-24 13:00 +0100
    Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Tom <tom@virta.be> - 2023-03-24 17:00 +0100
      Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> - 2023-03-25 23:40 +0100
    Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Tom <tom@virta.be> - 2023-03-24 17:10 +0100
  Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2023-03-24 16:20 +0100
  Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-24 21:40 +0100
    Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-25 00:20 +0100
  Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-24 22:30 +0100
    Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-24 22:50 +0100
    Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-25 07:40 +0100
  Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-25 11:10 +0100
    Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-29 16:00 +0200
      Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-29 16:10 +0200
        Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-29 16:30 +0200
          Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2023-03-29 16:50 +0200
            Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-29 17:10 +0200
          Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-03-30 13:10 +0200
        Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-03-29 16:50 +0200
          Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-29 17:20 +0200
            Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-03-30 16:50 +0200
              Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-03-30 17:40 +0200
              Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-31 03:50 +0200
  Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> - 2023-03-30 07:50 +0200
  Re: should CLI have a nice UI today? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-03-30 09:30 +0200

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