menuitis

menuitis

/men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software withan obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer theflexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces,especially those customisable via macros or aspecial-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks.

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