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

[Simon A Watts <simon watts marconi com>]

Josh Steiner wrote:

> Yes, I too have gotten into writing some nautilus oriented scripts.  It is
> pretty fun.  Being able to output status info aboutthe script to the
> nautilus status bar would be terrific.  I can't think off the top of my
> head what I would want to send to the notes pane, but I imagine someone
> else could.
I think that being able to write (brief!) output from scripts to the 
notes pane would be useful where you wanted some (semi-) perminant 
record of having done something, say a note that you have backed up on 
some day.  There is obvious uses for the status bar for one-lines.

For more verbose output, being able to stream to Nautilus' text view 
would probably be good enough (if the "script manager"[?] put it up if 
any non-whitespace was recieved on that pipe).  Though I would prefer if 
it only occupied half the main pane, in a pop-up-from-bottom manner -- 
it would be rude to hide this pane completely and automatically (thats 
more MS-style...)



Si.

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