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I think what we need is unix/shell-like GUI. CLIs all have the same consistent user interface. Positional arguments, flags, and text output. On unix-like envs
by vaughan 4y ago
I think what we need is unix/shell-like GUI.
CLIs all have the same consistent user interface. Positional arguments, flags, and text output. On unix-like envs they also have pipes. This is why people like them. This is what makes people productive in them.
Sure, modern GUIs have a few shared UX paradigms, but largely they are all different.
I wonder how the unix philosophy applies to GUIs? Or what the early developers thought about it. How would piping work in a GUI.
- thesuperbigfrog 4y agoYou might find Rio interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system)
- ogogmad 4y agoThere was a GUI at some point - in an old rarely used OS - that allowed you to use point and click to connect the output of one text box into a form field. Found it. Doesn't work quite how I expected it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(software)#Pipelines_in_GUIs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(software)#Pipelines_...