Re: feature idea (graphical pipes?)

[Jean Raymond Chauviere <Jean-Raymond Chauviere cetelem fr>]

It can be based on named pipes (I suppose they exists on LINUX as on
SYS V).
a shell and 2 tk scripts
A shell script is waiting for read on this pipe the name of the file and
depending
on the extension do the preferred action.
The gui can be written in tk with a drag ' drop extension. I don't know if
there
is such extension compatible between tk and gmc.
The harder (....:-) ) will be the manager of preference and action that
must generate
the script waiting on the pipe kill it an relaunch it after modification.
It's no more 0,5 day work.
I'm really sorry, but I have no time to do it by myself...
JRC

Olaf Grüttner wrote:

> I just had an idea for a cool feature for the gnome-desktop.
>
> graphical pipes !!!
>
> while on the console it is easily possible to design a useful pipe with
> find | tail | sort | uniq | grep | lpr  and so on .... :-) it is not
> possible to do that in a rather graphical user-friendly way.
>
> So here is my suggestion: have an icon sitting on the desktop. From out
> of gmc you drag a file to the icon and the pipe is processed according
> to the will of the user:
> .doc - files from word are processed to xml
> .c - files will be processed to have the #include -files automatically
> included
> .ps - files are send to the printer, like in the printer applet
> .lyx - files will be translated into tex-files
> .xls - files are automatically deleted :)
>
> ... and whatever the user wants.
>
> well the output will be put onto the desktop. The pipe will be
> extension- and name-sensitive and if you drag multiple files other
> actions can happen like producing diff-files on .txt files or appending
> files on .tex files.
>
> As long as the pipe is working it could show an animation or do whatever
> you like.
>
> how about an install or patch pipe? Drag a patch file onto the icon and
> ...
>
> --
> Olaf Grüttner
> O.Gruettner@tu-bs.de
>
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