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• WIMP environment n. [acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment such as X or the Macintosh interface, esp.
  as described by a hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior flexibility and extensibility....
• menuitis: /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
  Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks....
• menuitis /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
  Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks....
• Macintrash: /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface.
  The term {maggotbox} has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina....
• point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-shoot interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh.
  The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots....
• WYSIWYG: /wiz'ee-wig/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is What You Ge
  as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure commands that do not result in immediate visual feedback....
• mouse ahead: vi. Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'.
  To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input....
• widget: n. 1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic examples (especially database tutorials).
  Legend has it that the original widgets were holders for buggy whips....
• for the rest of us: [from the Mac slogan "The computer for the rest of us"] adj.
  1. Used to describe a {spiffy} product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe {spiffy} but very overpriced products....