Re: More on Graphical Pipes

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> wonderful, I would love to mix my ideas with yours and brew something
> up. In the following lines, I try to be more specific on what I thought
> of originally. And like you allready said, the basic idea is to great to
> be dropped. Send me your comments / proposals/ ideas/ whatever and we'll
> see what happens.

As a good pointer, I would check out AmigaOS.  AmigaDOS has this feature
in the workbench called an "appicon" which does exactly what you are
describing and more.  You can drag a file into the icon and depending on
the type of the file will "more", "xv" or whatever utility.  So if you
drag a gif in it wil launch a image viewer, if it's a file it will pipe it
through more.  (heck the appicon even had animation features ala NeXT)

It would be good to have.  With AmigaOS going Linux Kernel, if a lot of
these features were to show up, I'm sure the Amiga fans would appreciate
it.

> It will scan the scripting directory, have a look at the dropped file
> (name, or extension) and take the appropriate script to process the
> file. The resulting file will be put onto the desktop, ready to be
> dragged into another place, or even to be dropped once again onto the
> pipe application.

Although GNOME is supposed to work on all platforms. I would like to
mention that the linux hacker guys are coming up with a way to figure out
datatypes through a loadable module.  Just something you might want to
keep in mind.  (even though you just want to run scripts...I say take it
to as grand a vision as you can!)

	sri

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