[bloomberg2020]

Agreed.

Personally I’ve given up on mouse GUIs

Why?

Photoshop pros use macros

Unix pros use text editing macros

Why teach new users single point and click methods of computing when the pros think it’s a waste of time

It’s from an era when computers couldn’t multi task and were largely business focused data entry terminals

Photo manipulation can be automated from a terminal and results displayed in real-time now

Why care about file menus? That’s just a set of keyboard macros unrealized.

The desktop metaphor is finally dying. Let it

[timw4mail]

The problem with this line of thinking is that not every program is going to be used enough to make learning the shortcuts or command-line switches worthwhile.

That said, each (gui) program should have relatively similar key-bindings.

[jcelerier]

> Photoshop pros use macros

> Unix pros use text editing macros

pros are like, 0.01 %

[msla]

And they're the ones who use your tool most of the time.

Do you want to make it "easy" for someone who's never used your thing before, or do you want to make it easy for someone who uses it a lot?

(Hint: A new UI is never easy.)

[timw4mail]

A new UI is much easier if it follows convention.