Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: community spirit

[Dustin Sallings]

On Nov 1, 2004, at 11:35, Thomas Lord wrote:

> In some sense, I think that part of what we're running up against in
> the UI area is simply that arch makes some really quite complicated
> maneuvers achievable and desirable, but our current UI technologies
> have precious little support for "complicated maneuvers" because the
> applications they provide access to tend to be so ... well
> ... simple-minded.

	I think a lot of it is the best being the enemy of the good, though.  
Some extremely common things such as undoing a file should be possible 
without having to go find a recipe on a wiki somewhere.

	I do, however, understand that a major complaint about tla is the 
massive number of commands (which is really just the way help is 
displayed, IMHO).

> Wrappers seem to me like a basically sound approach: towards tla 2.0,
> I hope to formalize the inputs and outputs of 'tla' a bit more, giving
> them a well defined structure from which fancier UIs may be, largely
> automatically, derived.

	I'm not arguing that wrappers are a good idea.  I can recognize the 
difference between feeling wrong and being wrong.

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Dustin Sallings