[ge-talk] Vision for a usable commandline

[Niklas Nisbeth]

Bad analogy. A GUI needs text input, that doesn't make it a command 
line app. Google only has one command, "search". You're just supplying 
the arguments to it, just like I am currently supplying arguments to 
BeMail's "send mail" command...

Improving local search has more to do with making applications use 
attributes more, and adding file contents indexing.

I agree with Waldemar, an improved object-oriented command line shell 
isn't a project for Haiku R1 or R2, even if it is something we could 
make use of.


> Yes of course the GUI comes first.
> 
> but one of the most popular websites is basically a CLI. It's called
> google.com :)
> So if there is any priority it would be on improving local search.
> 
> On 1/11/07, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornewald at haiku-os.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 1/11/07, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It's good to study different cli's just as it is good to study
> > > different gui ideas.
> > > Why should all the innovation be focused solely on the GUI?
> >
> > Please keep in mind that our focus is the desktop user. It isn't 
> > our
> > primary goal to innovate the CLI. We want to make computers easy to
> > use for everyone (not just geeks) and with the CLI we will only 
> > reach
> > a limited audience. In contrast, the GUI will be used by all of our
> > users and we have a **lot** of work to do if we want to achieve our
> > goal of a seriously easy to use operating system.
> >
> > Before we invest time in trying to improve the CLI we must get the 
> > GUI right.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Waldemar Kornewald
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