In six years of using windows versions of povray, I've got a few habits 
deeply ingrained.  One is that I have long descriptive filenames, which also 
include version numbers, and like a packrat I've stored all the versions 
along the way.  I've stored just about all my work in one honkin' huge 
directory.  I've also highly compartmentalized my character system into 
multiple include files (minimum of four per character) and am working on 
comic book format which puts multiple scenes on an image-- more and more and 
more scene files!   I've also sort of scoffed that people were actually 
typing out povray and remembering a whole bunch of switch codes-- it always 
seemed like Inspector Gadget saying "Go Go Gadget-- raytracer!"

I finally got povray for linux working under knoppix 3.8 and got my first 
taste of povray in linux. I kept clicking on the "povray" icon and "nothing" 
was happening. Then it dawned on me.  Suppose I was to have to type out the 
actual letters p-o-v-r-a-y followed by a filename followed by some switches? 
I started typing out povray and then filenames, and kept misspelling them. 
(Hey, lest you accuse me of non-RFTMming, hey,  the help file in Windoze 
version is most easily accessed through the "application" of povray. I'll 
find it someday)

It's kind of like going to the banquet of the foreign dignitary and finding 
out that they really do eat puppies.  I don't mean to start a flame war or 
anything, I'm as much poking fun at my computer ignorance as what is likely 
your culture, of which it must be said, "Not that there's anything wrong 
with that" in true Krameresque fashion.

I would ask.  This setup seems to work great for making a few iterative 
changes to a few files, but doesn't at this hour seem conducive to managing 
great slews of files in the way Window's  GUI version is capable of.   Am I 
wrong? Any tips? Any plans to GUI it?

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