GUI
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A GUI is a visual display - allowing a person to interact with images and icons, rather than a display that shows only text and requires typed commands.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2023
Microsoft enabled Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 for developers last year, and features like this will be available immediately in the Microsoft Store in the future.
From The Verge ● Oct. 12, 2021
Safari is unbearable to use, as is iTunes which is stuck in the 90's with it's pathetic GUI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2014
She wanted to get better at Java GUI programming, so she got a summer research assistantship at the MIT Media Lab.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2014
It's basically impossible to write an application for those systems that does not use the GUI, and the systems can't be used effectively from the command line.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
"I am quite certain that the main target was Mr Gui. They wanted to prevent him from publishing that book," said Mr Lee, who was not privy to what the publisher had been writing about.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2015
“With this guy Buddy Gui. We’re the real thing.”
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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I might have more to say, but I am absorbed about La Gui. and her illness.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
This suggests many new design ideas for future GUIs, and they will slowly happen.
From Time ● Apr. 2, 2013
Those that consider GUIs bloat and think a good user experience involves green monospaced fonts on a pure black terminal window will not be pleased with the new Ubuntu.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2010
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