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Month: April, 2008

Improving on Easy GIT

I previously mentioned Easy GIT, which greatly improves git, in large part by hiding man pages and command line options packed with unimportant implementation detail, while adding examples and options that relate to workflow. Since then I’ve been using Easy GIT with other people and a central repository, and moving up the learning curve a […]

LiTL UI Team

The LiTL UI team has arrived! Welcome to Johan, Lucas, Tommi, and Xan. Still looking for more people, of course. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2008-04.html#14)

UI Designs Involving Opening Terminal Windows

Jason, I think you’re missing a really basic point here. The point of a GUI is (usually) not to expose or wrap a command line app. It’s to provide a nice way for some specific audience to do some specific thing. The whole reason PackageKit is new and different is: it’s not a “frontend for […]