> It's not easy because it's an command line.
> Not a single family member would touch this here.
> It's sad but understandable.
I can understand why many people will avoid using commandlines. The part I don't understand is how they're quite comfortable when those commandlines are surrounded by "Forward", "Back", "Stop" and "Reload" buttons; or when they have an "I'm feeling lucky" button underneath.
In the case of this discussion, the typical user flow would be something like:
- Double click browser
- Enter special string of text "youtube.com" in URL box and hit enter
- Enter strings of text into YouTube search box to find videos
- Copy special string "https://youtube.com/watch?v=abcdefg" from URL box
- Enter another special string "google.com" in URL box and hit enter
- Enter strings of text into Google search box and hit enter
- Click SuperDuperVideoDownload link
- Paste special string "https://youtube.com/watch?v=abcdefg" into SuperDuperVideoDownload box and hit enter
Present this user with a CLI like youtube-dl, and they'll complain that they don't like the idea of copy/pasting special strings into boxes.
youtube-dl actually has quite sane defaults too; e.g. "youtube-dl https://......" will Just Work (TM). Switches are only needed for fancier stuff (e.g. "Download highest quality Free format and extract the audio track")
> Not a single family member would touch this here.
> It's sad but understandable.
I can understand why many people will avoid using commandlines. The part I don't understand is how they're quite comfortable when those commandlines are surrounded by "Forward", "Back", "Stop" and "Reload" buttons; or when they have an "I'm feeling lucky" button underneath.
In the case of this discussion, the typical user flow would be something like:
- Double click browser
- Enter special string of text "youtube.com" in URL box and hit enter
- Enter strings of text into YouTube search box to find videos
- Copy special string "https://youtube.com/watch?v=abcdefg" from URL box
- Enter another special string "google.com" in URL box and hit enter
- Enter strings of text into Google search box and hit enter
- Click SuperDuperVideoDownload link
- Paste special string "https://youtube.com/watch?v=abcdefg" into SuperDuperVideoDownload box and hit enter
Present this user with a CLI like youtube-dl, and they'll complain that they don't like the idea of copy/pasting special strings into boxes.
youtube-dl actually has quite sane defaults too; e.g. "youtube-dl https://......" will Just Work (TM). Switches are only needed for fancier stuff (e.g. "Download highest quality Free format and extract the audio track")