On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:39 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command > > line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that > > uses a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of > > piping and redirecting. At the moment I'm just in the day dream stage of > > development but I'm happy to start implementing if someone else is. > > > > Anyway, sorry if this is a considered a spam but I need to some how ask a > > largish number of people if I would be wasting my time on if I tried > > writing it.
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:41:24 you wrote: > I think it's a good idea. > > Are you thinking of it as an educational tool, or something more like a > shell script generator from a GUI? A script generator intended mainly for one liners. > I had a brief look around freshmeat.net and didn't see anything like > this. It may be that given the familiarity with the use of the command > line by Linux user, such a tool is not needed. Or it may be that nobody > thought of it before. > I have had this idea in the back of my mind for a couple of years as something that could be done. The reason why I have bought it up now is because I've noticed that Unix has a massive bias against people with weak language skills. > I have to say I've seen and worked with plenty of graphical tools to > generate process flow and data flow from basic elements, with or without > a target or specific language to generate the task in, but all had a > specific purpose. Never seen something so close to the operating system > as to use command line components. > Basically what I want to be able to do with it is reply to people saying "Linux is all unintuitive command line stuff from the 70's ", with "Look! A modern graphical command line!". > It may be that you have uncovered something here. > In a way I am hoping not. I'm scared of having to follow this up with a stable, maintainable implementation. We'd probably have to have a set of categorised tables with all of the common commands in there and a method for adding more. Also a dialogue for arguments and lots of documentation would be required. -- Quote of the login: In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
