Re: feature idea (graphical pipes?)

[Leland Elie <datazone airmail net>]

Would't it better to just have contex menu that popup when you right
click on a file with a list of possible actions?  oh wait... that is
already in gmc.  All that is really needed is to make it more
customisable, so that you can create user definable actions that you can
add to the list, or that when you install an application, it can modify
that list and add whatever features it is capable of onto the contex
menu.

Unless that is already there...

Leland Elie
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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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