Properly identifying applications

LD 'Gus' Landis ldlandis at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 15:30:50 UTC 2009


Patrick,

  What a great line!!!  Umm... "shoot the GUI"?? (my command-line response).
  Thanks for the smile.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Patrick Goetz<pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> When the command line is more user friendly than the GUI, this should
> set off those little alarm bells that something needs to be done
> differently.
>

  But I agree, being able to see what command is invoked without having to
  open the menus would be a nice feature!

Cheers,
  --ldl

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:55 AM, David MENTRE<dmentre at linux-france.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 16:50, Patrick Goetz<pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>> I'm not sure what the answer is at the moment, but a no-brainer
>> choice is to clearly identify WHAT application is being invoked from the
>> menu.
>
> I agree. Displaying a "Document Viewer (evince)" or "Document Viewer /
> evince" would be a big plus.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> david
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