Re: definition of GUI (was Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?)
%% Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org> writes:
jd> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:39:40PM +0100, marc wrote:
>> GUI !=> mouse use a lot of folk imply that, but I don't understand
>> why. Funnily enough, I tend to use the mouse more in KDE than Windows
>> - but that's probably because I have migrated toward apps that don't
>> require much, if any, mouse input on Windows. Nevertheless, it still
>> stands that GUI !=> mouse
jd> I agree: I'd like to add, GUI != X either. I think a roguelike
jd> interface qualifies as `graphical'.
I'm not sure this definition is useful in this context.
By that definition just about every editor ever invented after ed(1)
would meet the "graphical" criteria. I'm pretty confident that Marc had
something a little more discriminating in mind :-).
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