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Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?



On 2010-02-27 21:03:04 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> We are talking of programs that you will not have the idea to run with
> the command line unless you know what they do. Programs that are usually
> run through a graphical menu.

They are sometimes found by shell completion. Moreover, before creating
a shell alias or add a new program to my ~/bin, I run "which" first to
see if I'll override something, and if a program with the same name
already exists, I want to know what it does.

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