that could be it… I’ve just thought about it a lot and came up with a new theory.
it seems to me that the limitations of screen real estate seem surmountable. eg: a settings menu could have a search bar like in android, meaning your options can be accessible even though they’re buried in the gui.
then, your settings could be “stable” and repeatable by adding flags like in google chrome (another gui program).
you can actually use chrome from a cli with selenium or the headless command (–headless) and I’ve used this to scrape websites locked behind Javascript. but average chrome users don’t demand the further development of these features.
You can hide things in submenus, tabs, side bars etc. so you can get get to lots of things in a few clicks, think BTrees for indexing data, but you can search through a screen more more easily by taking in multiple things at once compared to a vector of data.
The issue is that you can rebalance BTrees and no one notices, you “rebalance” a GUI and people’s pre-remembered paths are invalidated.
that could be it… I’ve just thought about it a lot and came up with a new theory.
it seems to me that the limitations of screen real estate seem surmountable. eg: a settings menu could have a search bar like in android, meaning your options can be accessible even though they’re buried in the gui. then, your settings could be “stable” and repeatable by adding flags like in google chrome (another gui program).
you can actually use chrome from a cli with selenium or the headless command (–headless) and I’ve used this to scrape websites locked behind Javascript. but average chrome users don’t demand the further development of these features.
You can hide things in submenus, tabs, side bars etc. so you can get get to lots of things in a few clicks, think BTrees for indexing data, but you can search through a screen more more easily by taking in multiple things at once compared to a vector of data.
The issue is that you can rebalance BTrees and no one notices, you “rebalance” a GUI and people’s pre-remembered paths are invalidated.