Steve Lamb wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:But that's a CLI job anyway. Tab-completion and history and the rest of the shell goodies makes the CL easier for most of that stuff :)Most, not all.
Agreed!
Agreed. Often I'm doing partial selections with apps like GFTP providing nicer selection for both source and destination.Shell's not to fond of partial selecions across a large list which is handled quite nicely in a properly implemented GUI with CNTL and SHIFT (note, Pan being a prime example of not doing it correctly).
We're pretty well agreed. Some of the above I haven't tried. I don't like the modal aspect of vi so I learned emacs which supports Lilypond very well. I wouldn't complain if emacs used more modern keystrokes though.I'm not trying to get into a GUI/CLI war here. I mean, c'mon, I use slrn for news, tbird for mail, pan for binaries decodes, spend most of my time in zsh, eschew mc except for rare uses (rarer now that I know lftp can do fish), and code most of my Python in vim except for the few portions I design in boa-constructor. If'n ya wanna pidgeon-hole me put me in the "uses what works for him and is grateful for the strengths of both" slot, please. Thanks. :)
As to the original topic a strong reason for my using KDE over Gnome is having all tasks in the taskbar instead of only those on the current desktop. If someone knows how to easily fix this in Gnome I might give it another look.
Have fun, Paul