Pedro de Medeiros wrote: > Hello, usability team. > > I believe better integration with traditional Unix Tools is a good > path for GNOME in general. A simple way of achieving this would > be, I guess, to allow Unix tools that interact through terminals > like write, talk and shutdown to interface directly with GNOME. > > So what about "hiding" a virtual terminal inside GNOME session > to listen to users and system requests that are sent directly to > terminals? > > Some mock-ups to make my point, then. The result of a write(1) > message sent to another user:
You are thinking about something like gxconsole Yes, it would be nice to have such utility in core GNOME desktop, otherwise halt / reboot / dying disc messages go to /dev/null. http://gxconsole.sourceforge.net/ -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: [email protected] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966, +49 911 740538747 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
