Ubuntu Domain Server

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

> On the otherhand however we see that a gui has one major advantage: It
> visually displays you all the options you have directly and thus, if you
> are looking for something, but are unsure what it is, you can just
> search through the submenus until you find the right checkbox/dropdown
> menu etc.
>   

Please explain why this is more convenient/faster than reading the man 
page? You mean clicking around to see all the options is faster than 
doing 'man page' '/related term' or 'man page' 'Page Down'

> This is not only important for stupid people, as we have seen we cant do
> anything about them anyways, but also for people who know their stuff.
> Why? Simply because no one can remember all the options even if they
> know what an option does. For example I might not exactly remember in
> which config file (with what syntax) I change ip address and subnet
> settings even if I know what Ip addresses are. But on a gui I can just
> click around until I find where to edit the ip address.
>   

Okay, a super know everything gui similar to that on Mac OS X helps here.