> Close to the Unix ideal of doing one thing, and doing it well.
In my opinion this concept does not work for most non-cli programs. How do you actually define this "one thing"?
Is "reading an email" one thing? And "writing an email" another thing? What about "spellchecking the email"? What about "managing all my email contacts"? What about "back up my emails"? What about "sign email with GPG"?
Do all of these things really need a separate program?
The unix principle works quite well for stuff like grep/find/awk but there is just now way you could make GIMP follow the unix principle.
In my opinion this concept does not work for most non-cli programs. How do you actually define this "one thing"?
Is "reading an email" one thing? And "writing an email" another thing? What about "spellchecking the email"? What about "managing all my email contacts"? What about "back up my emails"? What about "sign email with GPG"?
Do all of these things really need a separate program?
The unix principle works quite well for stuff like grep/find/awk but there is just now way you could make GIMP follow the unix principle.