On 8/16/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 13 août 07 à 13:05, David Chisnall a écrit : > > > On 13 Aug 2007, at 05:47, Jesse Ross wrote: > > > >> As David said in a different email, we could use the object manager > >> to launch apps, or use Quentin's port of the app launcher that David > >> made, or we could drag apps to the side as a clipping, and launch the > >> app from there. > > > > I'm using LaunchBox on OS X and Étoilé now (thanks to Quentin for > > finding my bug on GNUstep). It works well, but the UI could use some > > work. Ideally I would turn it into a menu-bar thing. > > At last FOSDEM, I showed to Jesse various Newton-like Intelligent > Assistant mockups I did. > Basically you type something and depending what you typed, the > Assistant offers various related actions for your text input. If you > type an application name, it will offer to launch it as default > action. It's "intelligent" because it tries to infer what you may > want to do. Actions vary if you type URL, mail address, people name, > application name, unix command, phone number. In a more general way, > the actions vary with the type of object inferred for the typed text. > As a side-effect, this means you can drop an image in the input area > and have image-related actions listed in the Action bar. So it's also > a sort of rudimentary CLI-like interface oriented towards everyday > users. > Some actions are available in most cases like Search, Dictionary or > Spelling. > An API would offer the possibility to add new actions. > > It uses a double pane presentation. For some actions, a new pane > appears below the action bar when an action is chosen. If you type > 'fog' then choose 'Dictionary' action, you will see the result/ > definition underneath the Action bar in another pane. If you type a > 'phone number', then choose 'SMS' action a second pane appears > underneath to let you type and send your SMS. > > You can invoke the Assistant in two way. Either by doing a key combo > or simply by typing when no text-based UI element is focused because > in such case it catches key strokes in all GNUstep applications. Once > invoked, it appears as a small window where you can input text. It > could have an option to vanish automatically when it isn't focused > for something like 10 seconds. > > So in summary, it extends LaunchBox to a wide range of actions which > includes application launching. >
It sounds to me like QuickSilver or Bulter on Mac. The concept is that after a keybord short-cut, a window shows up and users can type. Then depending on what they type, actions get fired. While I like this idea, I think the core of this application is an engine which it can process natural laugnage, ex. it can parse a string into a phone number or address, or an application name. I wonder whether it can be easily done ? Yen-Ju > Cheers, > Quentin. > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev > _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
