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Thanks for volunteering yourself and your own time to this endeavor.
So you admit the lack of GUIs on Linux is due to a lack of developers?
You don't think it's easier for users to edit configuration files by hand?
Well, more choice is a good thing. So long as the configuration file stays available as well (because it makes it way easier to script this configuration), then having a GUI available is cool, too.
Having said that, the particular feature that OP wants is for people who want to script things, meaning most of them will prefer the configuration file anyways. You'd need quite a lot of spare devs for one of them to get bored enough to want to develop a GUI, which will not see much usage.
Actually no I don't.
Linux doesn't lack GUIs; there's at least ten entire Desktop Environments in active development at any given time and several of them are quite feature complete such as Cinnamon and KDE. Then you've got GNOME which is polished if deliberately feature poor.
A few DEs do have GUI applets for editing the context menu but not all do. Windows doesn't have one built in. Quote the second page of that thread:
I'm a subscriber to the old adage "GUIs make simple tasks easy, CLIs make complex tasks possible." This task is either within the city limits of shell scripting or close enough to read the "Speed limit 35 unless posted" sign, so it might as well be left as a "write a config file" type thing.