[ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

[Avi Greenbury]

Paul Sutton wrote:
> surely a tool can be written for the gui that does this job. There are
> tools that handle ping, traceroute, nslookup, whois etc in a small
> application, so why not one for lsusb, lspci etc
>
> it just needs a tabbed gui that can allow 1 button to be pressed the
> results displayed in a scrollable box,  this allows easy copy / paste in
> to a e-mail or text document. it would make life easier.  we need to
> think from a non techy / geek point of view sometimes.

The only difference between this and the terminal is the need to enter 
the command itself. I don't see the point, personally.

I think that, rather than concoct some contrived two-bit GUI to replace 
all these nice and quick command line tools, it'd likely be worth 
instead helping these people lose their fear of the command line. These 
GUI wrappers would only be of use if they were in the default install - 
there's no point obviating what benefit they might present by first 
having to talk whoever through installing them.

Besides, I don't buy this thing about Windows users being scared of the 
command line. When I was doing Windows (admittedly XP) desktop support 
about 80% of my calls started 'press Start+R; now enter CMD'.

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Avi