Why coders must not write UIs:

[theweaselking]

From here

Worst thing: There's a "pro mode" button on that dialog.

That being said, look at the window title. This, again, exemplifies *everything* I say about Linux programs and coding and documentation.

Comments

Re: Yeah but...

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

This is the exact failure in interface and documentation that frustrates me so constantly.

OK, the interface is painful, but one can argue that the born-and-bred-in-the-server-room programmer didn't know any better. But if that thing comes with no documentation, whoever wrote that GUI deserves some hurt.

Re: Yeah but...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Oh, it comes with documentation. Of course, that documentation tends to be of the form "check 'ignore robots.txt' to have WGet ignore robots.txt files", or maybe "-rC recurse ignoring CRL limits when the SPOO has too much FLEEM."

At least, the kind of thing I'm complaining about does. I haven't looked specifically at WGet's manual.

Re: Yeah but...

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

This isn't wget, not even the windows version of it -- it's just a wrapper 'designed' to make it 'easier' to generate the commandline that is the actual wget than typing it yourself. Which means it fails miserably of course, since the online help for the commandline wget (wget --help, as standard) is actually pretty good.