Re: [Nautilus-list] Advanced feature request (learning tasks by example)

[Daniel Wang <danwang CS Princeton EDU>]

John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com> writes:

> This is a very large task that would take a long time to get right.
> Hopefully somebody will eventually get around to adding such a thing to
> Nautilus.
> 
> Note that this is very similar to recording AppleScripts in the Macintosh
> Finder. So it's not completely untrodden ground.
> 
> A much simpler feature that we hope to add in the not-too-distant feature is
> a way to invoke arbitrary scripts on the selected files & folders in icon or
> list view. The bug report describing this feature is at
> http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4875.
> 
> John

The AI ideas are certainly, a major undertaking. However, the ability to log
user interactions in a replayable script format would probably be useful for
debugging and usability studies too. Is adding such a feature such a
difficult task?