menuitis

from 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}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)