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[[Category:Encyclopedia]]A '''GUI''' or '''Graphical User Interface''' is a way of [[User Output - graphical|graphically organizing information]] and accepting user input, typically from a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse. Another acronym for this concept is WIMP--Windows, Icons, and Mouse Pointing. GUI's can have [[Simple Windowed Application|buttons]], text fields, pictures, or tables (among many other things). |
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]A '''GUI''' or '''Graphical User Interface''' is a way of [[User Output - graphical|graphically organizing information]] and accepting user input, typically from a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse. Another acronym for this concept is WIMP--Windows, Icons, and Mouse Pointing. GUI's can have [[Simple Windowed Application|buttons]], text fields, pictures, or tables (among many other things). |
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=Common GUIs= |
==Common GUIs== |
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*Microsoft Windows |
*[[Microsoft]] [[Windows]] |
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*OS X |
*[[Mac OS X]] |
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*X11/X.org for [[UNIX]] systems |
*X11/X.org for [[UNIX]] systems |
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*rio for [[Plan 9]] |
*rio for [[Plan 9]] |
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*Photon for [[QNX]] |
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Latest revision as of 21:35, 7 October 2009
A GUI or Graphical User Interface is a way of graphically organizing information and accepting user input, typically from a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse. Another acronym for this concept is WIMP--Windows, Icons, and Mouse Pointing. GUI's can have buttons, text fields, pictures, or tables (among many other things).