2011/12/28 David Caro Estévez <[email protected]> > As far as I know, clicompanion uses vte lib to emulate a terminal, I don't > know (but it's not likely) if it's possible to launch terminator as another > process and interact with it. > > Personally I love terminator, and I think it will be a great improvement > for clicompanion to use terminator as terminal emulator. > > In fact, terminator already has something similar to clicompanion, is a > plugin called 'custom commands', that allows you to tag commands and > execute them from the menu. > > Also, just checked the source, and terminator also uses vte, we could > reuse a lot of code from terminator. > > I propose to reuse all the terminator's code (make a wrapper around > terminator or something similar), so we use terminator instead of using vte > directly, that will give us a great terminal app inside clicompanion. > > This way we will also help improve terminator (finding bugs, or even > submitting patches and branches). > > The plugin approach can also be a good solution, but will constrain the > code to only those methods allowed by the terminator's plugin api (still > under development). > > > David > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Matthew Byers <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Before i go digging into source application i wanted to ask here first. >> As default of course clic grabs terminal. Is it possible to have it grab >> the application "terminator" instead of terminal? >> >> -- >> God Bless >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~clicompanion-devs >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~clicompanion-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~clicompanion-devs > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~clicompanion-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
This is great idea! I think it is possible, and adding some code from terminator will be a good way. Thanks! Marek Bardoński
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