While not adding a terminal to Do, what about having the ability to capture the output from a command in the Selected Text buffer in Do?
So I can run something like, oh, I dunno, `date`, and have the output available to Google, or open a file, or tweet, or whatever else I can possibly think to do with it in Do. One of the most powerful tools of UNIX is the pipe, and Do has pipe-like capabilities too. Why not merge the two? It could be a new action, like "Run Capturing Output" along side the default Run action and the Run in Terminal action provided by the GNOME Terminal plugin. I myself would find this much more useful than having a terminal embedded into Do itself. Of course there's the problem that some commands may require user interaction, or may flood Do with tons of useless output. Maybe if a program tries to interact with the user Do can fork the command to a terminal (*i.e. * fall back to Run in Terminal). Not sure how that would be accomplished, but it sounds like a good idea to me. Also, for the problem of huge data floods, have the option of dropping the data into a text editor. What do you think? -Josh On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:31 PM, David Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > So far, the use cases you mention are satisfied by the GNOMETerminal > plugin. > > Do is meant to be the glue between activities on your computer, not a > replacement for the activities themselves; we really do not want Do to > become a monolithic app, I even argued against adding a calendar yo > Docky! GNOME Terminal is its own application, with its own developers, > bug tracker, documentation, etc. Asking our project to duplicate all > of that is too big a price to pay for such little gain. > > David > > Sent from my latest-and-greatest, proprietary, DRM-enabled, crypto- > locked gadget. > > On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:59 AM, baldurpet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> I don't understand how this would be any different than opening a > >> Terminal > >> window and minimizing it to Docky. Except for maybe a keyboard > >> shortcut. > > > > Except when you stop using it it goes away and doesn't clutter your > > screen, even though it keeps running. I could see how this would prove > > useful when downloading a program; you'd just type "apt-get > > install ...", "wget ..." or what ever and then start doing something > > else. A shortcut might also be helpful like you said. > > > > If it would be anything like the AWN terminal it would also be very > > quick to open because it never really closes > > > > > > > -- Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed. --Frederick Bastiat ICBM Address Latitude: 41°27'33.20"N Longitude: 112° 2'39.88"W Don't Shoot! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
