Re: [9fans] Remote access

["Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>]

Lucio De Re wrote:
> drawterm again obviates this drawback quite successfully.

I urge that people keep in mind the fact that some computer users
are blind and *need* a text-oriented user interface instead of a
graphical user interface.  That doesn't mean dragging everyone
down to a common denominator, but it does mean not *unnecessarily*
forcing graphics upon an application.  Quite a few apps can be
designed as two processes: a GUI controller and a text-driven
computational engine.  There are other reasons for preferring
such a design, but it's also a very good compromise between the
needs of the blind and the desired of the sighted.

Thanks for listening.