menuitis

2 definitions found

menuitis - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  menuitis
  
     /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A 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 customisable via macros or a
     special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks.
  
     See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us
     .
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-12-02)
  

menuitis - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.
     See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP environment, for the rest of us
     .