Shall I implement this and mentoring

[Stefan Israelsson tampe <stefan tampe spray se>]

Hi,

One issue I would like to be improved is the possibilities to mitigate 
bad user interfaces.
Usually when the number of items in list boxes and list view grows I 
have to parse sometimes more then 100 items for a specific item and all 
operations on these lists becomes a mess resulting in tired eyes and 
brain. I do not want to complain but in stead try to find a solution and 
help.

This is my solution:
Each gtk-object should have different representations of it's state. You 
can choose to represent the object on screen as usual or as a published 
python object if you have python interpreter hooked to your application 
via dbus for example. or if you are on linux, make
a FUSE directory that represents the data as a readable file repr.txt in 
that directory and perhaps allow for transfer back to the application by 
writing to specific files.

An example is for example I'm opening a listbox of 343 of email adresses 
and want to select
those from a certain company. I want to do C-A-T, a shell opens up in a 
directory ~/.crapmail/com/listbox-314 with a file repr.txt, then do grep 
*soft* repr.txt > selection.out - voila I have sellected 23 adresses 
with no hazzle at all.

The other solution is to have a dbus interface, a python application can 
hook itself to the application, you open your listbox, push C-A-Dbus and 
then the cur, object in the ipython session will be an object 
representing the listbox.

What's your solution?

Do you agree on implementing something like this?, can anyone mentor me 
to implement this? Do you want to do this yourself that's fine with me?

Regards
Stefan