TUI. Text User Interface. Command line. Terminal. You interact with the application via the keyboard, rather than a mouse, touchscreen, trackpad, etc.
What does non-gui mean ?
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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
spongebue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s also voice user interfaces! I’m not sure if it goes by another name, but blind people have their own way of using a phone, plus there’s a lot of voice control when driving or using Alexa and the like
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Just of note, TUI stands for terminal user interface, not text!
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Both definitions seem to be present:
In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an early form of human–computer interaction, before the advent of bitmapped displays and modern conventional graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc 2 weeks ago
Can literally everything be tui ?
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
No but many things can be. There’s also a distinction between a CLI (command line interface) and TUIs (terminal user interface); like stuff built using ncurses which is a popular TUI library.
Things that need graphics don’t work well as a TUI. For example, it would be pretty hard to make a 3d modelling application like Blender make sense in a terminal…
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yup. though a lot of things are more effecient and easily understood with GUIs than command line interfaces. Imagine a volume slider. on the other hand there’s a lot of things that are much more convenient in a terminal window.
sure. you can use
amixer sset Master 50%to set volume to 50%, but it’s faster and more intuitive to use the GUI for it.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yes technically. Practically some software would be objectively awful without a graphical interface, like image modification.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
In a nutshell, there are three types of program interfaces. CLI, TUI, and GUI. GUI means it is graphical, buttons, menus, that sort of thing. CLI and TUI both rely the terminal (they are “non-GUI” I guess), where CLI means command line interface, things like “cd” or “tar” would fit into this. TUI means terminal user interface, and they usually involve keyboard navigation, but you still have menus and such. A good example I use a lot is rmpc, a neat music player! There are some TUI programs that also support mouse input, like aforementioned rmpc, but it’s not the focus.
TLDR: GUIs have buttons you click with a mouse, TUIs have menus that can be navigated via a keyboard, CLIs mean you type commands into the terminal.
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
GUI - Graphical User Interface
“Non-gui” mean that the software does not have a GUI, this means that the softare uses text mode instead.
Oisteink@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It means there are no graphical user interface. It does not mean that there are any other user interfaces, but it does not rule it out either.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Non gooey
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“Made by Oracle”?
RegularJoe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
GUI - graphical user interface, like a window.
Non-gui, lacking a window, like running a command in a terminal (or command prompt).