Re: [gnome-love] Command-line usability

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 18 Aug 2005, at 09:16, Soyapi Mumba wrote:
> If we can find a way where people can submit what they
> expect from each letter [a-zA-Z] as a command-line
> option, we should be able to come up with reasonable
> recommendations, considering which options options are
> popular for which functions.
>
> Any ideas how we can best do that?

I would say it's probably easier to do some research yourself up  
front (i.e. look at all the short options that the most common  
commands use, for some reasonable definition of 'common'), and write  
up a proposal for people to comment on.  At that point, you might  
want to bring it to the attention of the freedesktop.org folks, as  
it's the sort thing that you'd want to be consistent outside the  
realm of GNOME too.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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