https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479961
Bug ID: 479961
Summary: Pipe the selected entry (or entries) to an external
command
Classification: Applications
Product: tellico
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: ro...@periapsis.org
Reporter: piotr...@vivaldi.net
Target Milestone: ---
Hello.
First and foremost, thank you very much for creating and developing Tellico for
all these years! It's a very useful piece of software.
What I miss in it is some way to easily cooperate with external scripts
provided by the user. For example, I would like to have an option to quickly
print a physical catalog card for an entry.
I think a simple and powerful solution would be to follow the Unix philosophy
and add the ability to pipe the selected entry (or entries) to an external
command as simple text encoded in a markup language (e.g., XML for that's what
Tellico uses for storing the data, though I personally definitely dislike it).
This way, users would be able to use whatever languages and tools they like to
create the external handler.
The way I see it implemented is to have a list of external handlers in the
configuration menu, just like the source list (albeit, the new one would
probably be empty by default) and put the elements of this list into a submenu
in the context menu shown when the RMB or the Menu key is pressed with some
entry or entries selected.
Kind regards.
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