Re: [Usability] GNOME Command line interface

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:39 +0200, SzG wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Yes I agree, there is a built-in solution for each use case. But I'm so 
> extremely lazy that I preferred working day and night on my "go" script 
> instead of having to memorize a few hotkeys. But now it's paradise!
> 
> One remark: typing "foo" in a terminal will start the GTK application 
> "foo", but you will have 2 problems:
> 
>     * your terminal gets blocked while "foo" is running
>     * closing your terminal will kill "foo"
> 
> But "go foo" will do the job perfectly.

So will "foo&".  I don't want to rain on your parade, because
this seems like a neat project.  But it seems to me that the
reason the "start" command on Windows needs to handle programs
is that it's hard to launch programs otherwise.  It's a solution
for a problem that we don't have.

--
Shaun