can anyone explain what GUI is to me?
2006-08-28 02:12:14 · 8 answers · asked by Worried Rachel 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Graphical User Interface. Things like "Draging and Dropping" objects such as files, pictures, texts etc.
2006-08-28 02:16:12 · answer #1 · answered by Smokey 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
GUI means graphical user interface which is ment for interacting the user(s) with a computer with graphcial images and/or widgets in addition to text.
Windows has a single GUI called the desktop. Other operating systems have more (for ex you can run several GUI on Linux like GNOME, KDE or XFCE).
On the early DOS a software that worked as a GUI was Norton Commander (Midnight Commander for Linux).
2006-08-28 09:21:50 · answer #2 · answered by agent-X 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Graphic User Interface.
In the early days of computers, you had to type out commands to get anything out of it, and it looked like one big run-on text file.
Enter Windows, where you could point & click anywhere on the screen to get the operating system to run programs via scripting.
Instead of typing in each command, you now had a "graphic" representation of what you wanted to do and the PC did all the commands for you.
2006-08-28 09:19:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
GUI ussually stands for Graphical User Interface. A computer term for windows type of screens and user interaction methods.
2006-08-28 09:16:40 · answer #4 · answered by Barra 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It stands for graphical user interface. Basically any program on a computer that you can use a mouse to interact with.
Windows is a GUI.
DOS and linux are not, because they are all text.
2006-08-28 09:16:00 · answer #5 · answered by 006 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
graphical user interface. Term was created by IBM Research when they created the point-and-click OS (which they thought had no market) which Apple promptly popularised in their OS, and Windows later plagurised.
2006-08-28 09:19:41 · answer #6 · answered by AzaC 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Graphical User Interface
In other words any one of the Icons you "click" on your desktop
2006-08-28 09:17:23 · answer #7 · answered by Dave B 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7184/guitool.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface
2006-08-28 09:18:49 · answer #8 · answered by herbs411_42719 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋