Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-10-13 Thread Christoph K.
Am Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:41:55 +0100 schrieb Tixy : > # > ~$ cat Desktop/test.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Version=1.0 > Type=Application > Terminal=true > Exec=/home/tixy/test.sh %F > Name=Test launcher > Icon=/home/tixy/test.svg >

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-08 05:16, Christoph K. wrote: David Christensen wrote: I'll probably go with the QT GUI Framework with either C++ or Python as programming language. Those sound like plausible choices. Will the app include accessibility features? Privacy? Security? No. That response

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 22:43:37 +0200 "Christoph K." wrote: > I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on the > command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files using > ffmpeg, run backups with specific parameters, display checksums(md5), > etc. > > I'm tired

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 17:41 +0100, Tixy wrote: [...] > You don't have to rely on the GUIs default terminal. If you set > "Terminal=false" in the .desktop file you can launch your script how > you want, e.g. I've used something... > > Exec=lxterminal --geometry=80x30 -e "sh -c /my/script" > I've

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 17:15 +0200, Christoph K. wrote: [...] > It doesn't work for me. Am I doing something wrong? > > Anyway, this wouldn't be an optimal solution. In some cases I need to > pass multiple arguments in a specific order. For example an audio and > video file that should be combined

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread Christoph K.
Am Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:40:03 +0100 schrieb Tixy : > > Put the (ffmpeg) command in a script and run it with argument/s ? > > And run the script from a 'desktop entry' [1] and your desktop GUI may > let you run it with file arguments just by dropping files onto it. You > can put these 'desktop'

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 13:40 +0100, Tixy wrote: > And run the script from a 'desktop entry' [1] and your desktop GUI may > let you run it with file arguments just by dropping files onto it. You > can put these 'desktop' files on you desktop or in there own directory > you can open when you have

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 13:05 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-09-07 21:43, Christoph K. wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on > > the > > command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files > > using > > ffmpeg, run backups

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread Christoph K.
Hello David, Am Tue, 8 Sep 2020 02:57:30 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : > There are a great many ways to implement graphical user interface > applications. Drag-and-drop support implies good integration with the > window manager or desktop environment. One option is to use a >

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread mick crane
On 2020-09-07 21:43, Christoph K. wrote: Dear all, I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on the command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files using ffmpeg, run backups with specific parameters, display checksums(md5), etc. I'm tired of typing the

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread David Christensen
On 9/7/20 1:43 PM, Christoph K. wrote: I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on the command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files using ffmpeg, run backups with specific parameters, display checksums(md5), etc. My idea is that I'd start up the gui

Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-07 Thread Christoph K.
Dear all, I'd like to "automate" a couple of tasks that I (until now) do on the command line manually. Examples include splitting of video files using ffmpeg, run backups with specific parameters, display checksums(md5), etc. I'm tired of typing the same long commands that I often need to look