Re: Goal

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>
To: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Goal


>Preben Randhol <randhol@dusken4.samfundet.ntnu.no> wrote:
>> Take this example:
>>
>> One make a nice little GUI app so that one can add a new user to your
>> linux system. Now this is fine and easy to use. The problem arises
>> when a sys admin wants to add 200 new and remove 20 old. Sitting and
>> clicking to add 200 new users is a painstaking job at best. This could
>> probably be done in a much faster way.
>
>are we planning on replacing the cli? every admin worth his money will do
>this with a ten-line script.


I'd prefer an interface slick enough where a newbie can have the same power
of a guru...

not possible, but it's a goal to work for.