What difference does it make? You will never used it anyway. It's not for you.Originally Posted by swamidog
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What difference does it make? You will never used it anyway. It's not for you.
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actually, i would. i've always said there's a lot of power and great features under the hood. it's just the interface that kills it.
i'm not alone in this.
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
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It also has features for making files in ilda and wav that could be loaded into the Radiator that would open up all kinds of possibilities. But you will never know this or be able to demonstrate it because you can't get over your hang-up.
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It has to be said, developers who design with user in mind generally make a better product. Better, meaning; easier to use and reaches far more people. To continue to design software, blatantly ignoring requests for improvements, just shows that you're doing it for you and not for the end user.
Elitism is ugly and always rears it's head in the CLI vs GUI arena. GUI users are constantly told, "Git Gud". I see this every day working in a, primarily, Linux shop with Windows and Mac users. "If you don't know CLI, you're a noob" attitude rubs me the wrong way. The "It's not for you" statement is failure to reach a wider audience with your software and relegates you and it to obscurity. Your original mission was to write software that was free to use against the evils of Pangolin. At least, that's what I remember from you and Gary (who wrote a GUI software). So, in my mind, if you're so proud of what you have created, why not expand it to reach more people? So many people have said they would use your software if it had GUI support. They are ignored so, I guess fuck them, right? In this regard, I don't criticize the art, just the artist.
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Chris has already clearly stated he has plenty of experience with cli. That's not really the issue.
Saying it's not for you isn't any kind of insult. It's just reality. That doesn't give anyone else the right to trash me or my work in open forum.
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If it only had a mouse interface... No, I'm not kidding. Dozens of people had said that over the years. Even Linux has mouse support.
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chris has been a unix admin for thirty years.... and he still finds the laserboy interface to be unworkable.
you do understand there's a difference between a well reasoned cli and your tui, right?
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
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Just face it Chris. It's not the interface or the keyboard layout that keeps you from using it. You are way smart enough to deal with that. It is 100% attitude.
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All software has a learning curve usually proportional to its capabilities and unique features. Pointing with a mouse is in no way easier than tapping a key.
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you are being delusional.
as you've seen in this very thread, there are others who find laserboy unusable due to its interface.
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
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How hard is it to find a key and tap it? Or shift tap it? That's not what makes LaserBoy difficult to learn. Why you would want to find that key and tap it and what it does is what is complicated. If you wanted to learn it and make good use of it you would. You might say there are so many other easier ways to do stuff, but in many cases that's not true because LaserBoy is the only way to do all kinds of things. But you will never know. You concentrate on what it doesn't do and have no interest in what it does.
LaserBoy is open source!
Write your own GUI.
That's the whole point of FOSS.
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