On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 28 December 2014 09:39:22 Tony Wolfs wrote: > > > >> ........if I know the pictures, why use words ? >> grin grin > > Why do GUI users always feel the need to brow-beat, cajole or otherwise push > everyone into using the GUI? ;-) Each to his own! > > Lisi Tony is just joking. I'm sure that at tea time he doesn't pull out a picture book! and that's part of the serious point. if I know what I want, I can just say it (= type the command). even if I know the meaning of the pretty pictures, I have start the app, click around, drop down a menu, scroll here or there, blah, blah. but yes, chacun a son gout or whatever. and sometimes the picture way is better, for instance, sorting a bunch of thumbnail files. F. -- Felmon Davis Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. -- Gilb