Hi all..
I am Sumit, third year Computer Science student from India. I am very much
enthusiastic about contributing for gnome, in google SoC'10. I have come up
with a project idea, which I wish to work on.
Description: I would like to develop a "User friendly Command Search Tool"
which gives users facility to search for a specific command offline. The
user can give a text input related to the command. The tool will generate a
list of commands with description, sorted based on relevance.
Currently, to search for a command we can do man -k or apropos or whatis ,
which searches for keywords in a set of database files containing short
description of system commands and displays the result in standard output.
But the results obtained are plenteous or sometimes empty and are
alphabetically sorted. So it becomes very painful to find the expected
command.
Take for an example,
when I search for "list content of directories" ==> empty result
"file compression" ==>
empty result
"compression" ==> 15
results(not sorted by relevance)
Benefits: This tool can be very useful for newbies who are not familiar
with linux commands. In such cases they have to google to get the command
they want. But in case of offline users they have no choice but to look into
linux reference manuals.
To Do: 1) Ranking the results based on relevance (developing a ranking
algorithm)
2) Making a GUI for the tool, which displays the results in a
user friendly manner, categorizing the results.
3) Use data from linux forums to estimate the popularity and
usage of command.
4) Do natural language processing of the input text, to give
good search results.
These are my initial thoughts of my idea. I would very much appreciate, if
I could receive some feedback on my idea and whether this can be feasible
for google SoC proposal. I am also looking for mentors, who might be
interested in this idea.
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With regards,
Sumit Ranjan
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