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Missing some major concepts of GUIs

Open mk-pmb opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

Most GUIs (at least from big vendors) are built with some basic concepts of user happiness in mind:

  • warn about potential accidents. (--interactive)
  • confirm success. (--verbose)
  • documentation optimized for inattentive readers. (man pages: conciseness)

More detailed explanation can be found in Joel's article "Biculturalism".

mk-pmb avatar Nov 09 '16 11:11 mk-pmb

PR welcome :)

stevemao avatar Nov 09 '16 22:11 stevemao

Similar to #6, I'm not exactly sure how to add this. I don't want the list to be too complicated. I understand GUIs and CLIs cannot be 1 to 1 equivalent. But if you have good ideas please go for it :)

stevemao avatar Nov 11 '16 23:11 stevemao

I'll try, but I can't predict when I will have time for it, as the priority is rather low compared to my other projects. If anyone else has a good idea, go ahead, no need to wait for me. :-)

mk-pmb avatar Nov 12 '16 00:11 mk-pmb