Tom Newton wrote:

> And the shell script "wizards" are much easier to understand and
> modify. Try doing that with a KDE "wizard". When they fail you
> are up the creek without a paddle.

Mere scripts only tell you *what* goes on, but not *why*. No much
difference between scripts and source code, it depends on the will and
skills of the author, to comment his work.


> As for the purely manual approach, the information is available to
> edit the text configuration files is available. Easily available.
> On your box or on the web.

Descriptions have a general problem: made by somebody familiar with the
subject, they can lack essential information for newbies, and made by
unrelated people, they may lack important information in general.


>>A GUI can offer only valid settings for every parameter, or
>>validate user entries, and can present context sensitive help.
>
>
> So can a shell script "wizard".

ACK in general, NACK in details.


> The GUI exists with, or without, KDE/Gnome. It existed a long time
> before they were even conceived.

I fell in love with GUIs with my Atari, many years ago. No matter what
name it has ;-)

DoDi