I found this post because using gnome-do with Xubuntu. I can't seem to do any thing useful with the "Run in terminal..." command.
I just began using gnome-do again because of docky. Really, I don't care much about docky, but its a nice way to remember gnome-do is there for others using my computer. It maybe useful for my netbook though as I like a central initial key sequence/Mouse click/ gesture place to initiate interactions with my computer. I also want to "DO" terminal stuff with the same initial "Super+Space" to jar my memory or to avoid an extrastep. Eye-candy is not enough if it adds a step or confuses me like "run in a terminal" does. My netbook came preinstalled with "Ctrl+Alt+T" brings up a terminal and gnome-do having the terminal plugin is a logical replacement for that but doesn't save any time and doesn't seem to do anything with my xubuntu terminal (since a xubuntu or xfce terminal plugin isn't ready yet I suppose" HOWEVER, IMHO, The "pipe commands through to a minimized terminal buffer" idea seems like a great one! A plugin that can "unminimize a terminal and embed it inside gnome-do or resize it to one docky size transparent line above the dock including tab completion of the bash history" would be so sweet! I agree it would be far better to not reinvent a feature or make it system specific but instead use a modular plugin that can make use of existing terminal buffer technologies. xfce4-verve terminal is useful but not really intuitive at first. A gnome-do verve plugin might be perfect. In fact, It would be 90% as useful as if it could just quickly summon a user terminal beating "Alt+F2" in bringing up a new terminal. But even if it is the same speed, looking in the same central start place like gnome-do and using natural interactive language is better than using the ugly "Alt+F2" run gui. So if Docky just allowed an option to "force minimize/hide this app when quit/exit or after x minutes of inactivity" and then the gnome- terminal plugin was smart enough to pop up that terminal and allow us to type the initial command with less delay than "Alt+F2 and "run in terminal" checked" we are better off. Other useful plugin would be a similar popup of read only logging datat from the terminal buffer of a X app that you ran via do "run in terminal" in the terminal for debugging/info purposes.... A toggle key to pop up a small window straming the stdout buffer of a particular app on the fly would be nice. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
