Re: [Nautilus-list] Scripts: standard outputs??

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 09:30  AM, Simon A Watts wrote:

> I was wondering if there is any mechanism for a script to send output to 
> some component of Nautilus, either some text window or the status bar? 
> Where does the standard output and standard error streams go?

I believe that standard output and standard error currently go wherever 
Nautilus standard output and standard error are going.

Scripts that want the user to see a message typically invoke tools that 
put up windows. In languages like Perl and Python, you can use GTK to do 
that.

> Could Nautilus redirect a scripts stdout to some part of itself, a text 
> display in the main window?  (Optionally, set to display if it receives 
> any non-whitespace).

I can imagine a fancier feature where Nautilus would put the script output 
somewhere rather than just letting it through to Nautilus's output. But if 
doing this, I would want to put the output somewhere that has the capacity 
for more than one line, because lots of scripts are going to output things 
from standard Unix tools.

> For that matter, if there where pseudo devices for components (eg, 
> /dev/nautilus-statusbar, /dev/nautilus-notes)?  (These are then script 
> language independant).

No. It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure exactly how this would work.

If someone wants to do some work in this area, I'm available to help a bit 
with design and implementation.

    -- Darin