I think this is a great idea. We will definitely trial it at the next workshop. I don't think there's any need to get it working across systems. As Lex says, it could be done almost as well with point and click on any filesystem GUI.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is great! Yesterday when teaching git I ran ‘cd Desktop; mkdir > planets’ while unintentionally having to top right corner of the desktop > visible. This meant the new ‘planets’ folder appeared out of nothing - > great teaching moment! So I totally see the point of this. > > Even without such a tool, an instructor could do the clicking on folder > names with the mouse to illustrate the GUI equivalent of the unix commands > (I did that once and I think it worked well too). > > Lex > > > On 20 Jun 2016, at 18:16, DVD PS <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 20 June 2016 at 17:04, Ryan Neufeld <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Andrew, >> >> Nice work. I would be interested to hear if it's been tried before in a >> teaching environment. >> >> For Linux users, the Dolphin file manager comes with a similar feature, >> although the installation is rather heavyweight unless you are using KDE. >> Press F4 to bring up the terminal, which stays synchronized with the file >> window. >> > > For gnome there is nautilus terminal [1], which changes the terminal to > where you go through the gui, however it doesn't update the file browser if > you change directories on the terminal. There's however another tool, > nautilus remote [2] which seems it does that (and more, check the video). > > Installation is distribution dependant and I don't know if the efforts to > install them really helps for the students. But it could be a think the > instructors could use when teaching. > > [1] http://projects.flogisoft.com/nautilus-terminal/ > [2] http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/nautilus-remote/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > -- Harriet Dashnow BSc, BA, MSc (Bioinformatics), PhD candidate www.harrietdashnow.com/about
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