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[Janina Sajka]

It's quite trivial to build menus for linux. They're well
supported by bash.

You may recall all of the old ISP's had them -- Concentric,
Inteport, etc., etc. Those were just shell scripts.

Nothing is stopping anyone. The entire process is very
accessible.

So, why aren't people talking about them? Maybe because they're
not that helpful after all.

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:

> Janina,
> 
>          Well, I kind of agree and disagree.  One reason why Windows is so 
> popular is the lack of heavy learning of command line commands.  DOS was 
> criptic, but Linux is even more so.  Hence, if we want to get the command 
> line to be supported by many more people than currently using it, then we 
> need to come up with a menuing system that eliminates alot of the criptic 
> stuff.  If i can launch a program in linux from a menu and then the program 
> gives me option like Pine, then it would work well.  I am talking about all 
> the system stuff that is so exacting and with all due respect to the 
> programmers, not very intuitive or descritive.
> 
> -- charlie.
> At 11:09 AM 5/13/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Charlie:
> >
> >Well, there's absolutely nothing stopping someone from writing
> >such a menuing system!
> >
> >hint hint hint
> >
> >Getting people to use it instead of the command line? Well,
> >that's another story.
> >
> >Here's what I think will happen. Some peopl will chose it because
> >it seems to make life simple. Then they'll want to do something
> >the menus don't support. Then the author gets mail saying "why
> >doesn't your menu ..." Then were are you?
> >
> >Back at the command line?
> >
> >Hopefully. Because the alternative, a fully capable menuing
> >system, is far worse.
> >
> >Just goes to say there's no substitute for learning.
> >
> >On Mon, 13 May 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:
> >
> > > Jim,
> > >
> > >          There is access not far off.  I would like to see a menuing 
> > system
> > > for Linix text mode that would reduce the criptic command line having to
> > > remember all those commands and switches.
> > >
> > > -- charlie Crawford.
> > > At 10:12 PM 05/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >Do you think we will ever have access to the gui?
> > > >
> > > >I find that I can access things faster in windows then in Linux text
> > > >mode.  I will admit that linux works much better then windows or the 
> > winxp.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org