[PhilD]

Originally posted by Pocus:
if GUI were not easier, people would still use dos based apps for data-managing commercial products, which is clearly not the case.

If I have comboboxes wich show me say the units of Marignon, or the list of all pretenders, and that I have just to click on the line I want to choose a name, then I think we can assume thats its easier and less error prone that do have to manually type that I want a Daughter of River as a pretender, for example.
GUI ask for room on your screen, thats true.

Let's not get started too far down this road...

A GUI is often easier when you're using an application. The command line, by definition, describes the launching of the application.

Some tasks are much simplified when you have an easy time accessing the information you want to organize (which I said in my post, under the generic term of "browsing"). But when it comes to issuing the right commands, with the right arguments, repeatedly, it's much easier to use a good shell (the old default DOS shell is NOT a good one).

What triggered my initial reply to Dekent was the affirmation that "GUI is (almost) easier".
I don't agree with this, in (almost) any possible sense of the word "almost"