On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 15:13 -0600, Joshua Gardner wrote: > 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?
That's not such a bad idea. It would definitely be possible. > > 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? Can you file a bug on launchpad against do-plugins and mention this as a feature request? -Chris S. > > -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
