The command-line originally existed as an improvement on things like punch-cards. Apps like Guake don’t just make it look more visually appealing, though: they help it interface far more smoothly as a textual part of the GUI. That’s the case regardless of whether the user is a newbie learning about the system through an appealing terminal, or an expert enjoying the convenience of having the CLI pop-up at a keystroke.

Either way, at least new CLI users *are* bothering to learn… That’s a big step up on many experienced users that haven’t bothered to learn language basics like how to use the apostrophe or simple homonyms.

I can imagine that on single user pc its fun to explore the shell but the only point of it has ever been to ease the users work needed to get to files or perform tasks.

We are talking about shell emulators here wich has nothing realy to do with making the terminal usefull rather replacing it with a program of choice.

While this is not necessary a bad thing its something that isnt improvment rather a work around.
There is only one way you ever can make your shell better and that is to learn the shortcuts and work with the keyboard rather than the mouse to copy paste stuf.

If somthing isnt user friendly on the first place it means your required to “learn it”
So start asking yourself if your running linux and want to work with the shell wouldn’t it be better to first read a book about it than rather download stuff to ease the use?

smae style. Quake like console…

i dont have a gui.