Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap



On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:32 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> At a technical level, I wish that GNOME made it easier to relate
> the visible GUI level to the underlying level of the command line

As an aside, one thing I find myself doing a lot of is:

$ cd ~/some/path
$ command
$ another
Hm. This would be easier graphically...
$ gnome-open .

which pops Nautilus up at ~/some/path.

[hey neat]

And meanwhile, when I've been navigating around in Nautilus for a while
and suddenly am getting annoyed that I'm not on the command line, I can
(via the nautilus-open-terminal plugin which is packaged in Debian &
Gentoo),

<RightClick> context menu -> Open in Terminal

and ta-da,

$ echo $PWD
/home/andrew/some/path
$

[hey neat :)]

which all makes for a nice duality and quite nice switching between
graphical and command-line paradigms.

[yes yes, you can just pop a terminal and chdir, but that's not the
point. This is easier, and context driven]

Anyway, not quite what Richard was getting at; his message describes a
more general and pervasive case, but this all is a good step in that
direction.

AfC
Sydney

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