I suppose it's the old VHS vs Betamax debate. However, someone could design a GUI to break away from the mould at the risk that no-one would use it. Sawmill is a good example of a WM which tries to do this with all sorts of themes without denying the option of keeping with something familiar, and applying similar themability to applications would probably give people the option of inheriting features from their favourite GUI.
I think NL CLIs will only be of use when voice operated computers confuse people who don't know how to pronounce "rm -rf/home/sjc77/t+smgznscns" and prefer something like "Remove that directory with all my scans from Trout and Salmon Magazine"
I think the most disturbing thing about this is that it can actually be done! I've taken a look through the script and I can't believe that such loopholes are present in the system. Take the registry stuff- an ordinary program with no privileges at all can just fiddle around with vital system variables with devastating results. Then there's the matter of plonking files in system directories without even the vaguest thought about what they are. Right, I think I'll stick my root password on my monitor and set all my system files to a+rw. We can't have secure systems, can we?
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I suppose it's the old VHS vs Betamax debate. However, someone could design a GUI to break away from the mould at the risk that no-one would use it. Sawmill is a good example of a WM which tries to do this with all sorts of themes without denying the option of keeping with something familiar, and applying similar themability to applications would probably give people the option of inheriting features from their favourite GUI.
I think NL CLIs will only be of use when voice operated computers confuse people who don't know how to pronounce "rm -rf /home/sjc77/t+smgznscns" and prefer something like "Remove that directory with all my scans from Trout and Salmon Magazine"
I think the most disturbing thing about this is that it can actually be done! I've taken a look through the script and I can't believe that such loopholes are present in the system. Take the registry stuff- an ordinary program with no privileges at all can just fiddle around with vital system variables with devastating results. Then there's the matter of plonking files in system directories without even the vaguest thought about what they are. Right, I think I'll stick my root password on my monitor and set all my system files to a+rw. We can't have secure systems, can we?