WIMP environment n.
[acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing
device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment
such as X or the Macintosh interface, esp. as described by a
hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior
flexibility and extensibility. However, it is also used without
negative connotations; one must pay attention to voice tone and
other signals to interpret correctly. See menuitis,
user-obsequious.
[acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing
device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment
such as X or the Macintosh interface, esp. as described by a
hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior
flexibility and extensibility. However, it is also used without
negative connotations; one must pay attention to voice tone and
other signals to interpret correctly. See menuitis,
user-obsequious.
Related:
- WIMP environment n.
[acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu,
Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical... - menuitis: /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software
with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer... - menuitis /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n.
Notional disease suffered by
software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no
escape.
Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer... - Macintrash: /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh,
as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate... - WYSIWYG: /wiz'ee-wig/ adj. Describes a user interface under
which "What You See Is What You Get",
as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure... - WYSIWYG /wiz'ee-wig/ adj.
Describes a user interface
under which "What You See Is What You Get",
as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure... - point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term
`point-and-shoot interface',
describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface... - WYSIAYG /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj.
Describes a user interface
under which "What You See Is All You Get";
an unhappy variant of WYSIWYG. Visual, `point-and... - mouse ahead vi.
Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'.
To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost...
