On 8/16/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 16 août 07 à 16:56, Yen-Ju Chen a écrit : > > > On 8/16/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Le 13 août 07 à 13:05, David Chisnall a écrit : > >> > >> At last FOSDEM, I showed to Jesse various Newton-like Intelligent > >> Assistant mockups I did. > >> Basically you type something and depending what you typed, the > >> Assistant offers various related actions for your text input. If you > >> type an application name, it will offer to launch it as default > >> action. It's "intelligent" because it tries to infer what you may > >> want to do. Actions vary if you type URL, mail address, people name, > >> application name, unix command, phone number. In a more general way, > >> the actions vary with the type of object inferred for the typed text. > >> As a side-effect, this means you can drop an image in the input area > >> and have image-related actions listed in the Action bar. So it's also > >> a sort of rudimentary CLI-like interface oriented towards everyday > >> users. > >> Some actions are available in most cases like Search, Dictionary or > >> Spelling. > >> An API would offer the possibility to add new actions. > > > > It sounds to me like QuickSilver or Bulter on Mac. > > The concept is that after a keybord short-cut, > > a window shows up and users can type. > > Then depending on what they type, actions get fired. > > Right, it's quite close to QuickSilver. However I think such > Assistant should stay simpler than QuickSilver and could be benefit > from better integration with the rest of Étoilé. > > > While I like this idea, I think the core of this application is > > an engine which it can process natural laugnage, > > ex. it can parse a string into a phone number or address, > > or an application name. > > I wonder whether it can be easily done ? > > Well, Apple came up with Apple Data Detectors long time ago (around > 1996 or so), but they have been lost in the transition to Mac OS X. > Newton has something even more evolved for its intelligent assistant. > But that doesn't mean at all whether it's easy to code or not ;-) > However there is this discontinued open source Cocoa project which > does precisely that kind of text analysis: <http://www.simson.net/ref/ > sbook5/>
Yes, it is close, but unfortunately, the license of its source code is not clear. > > Quentin. > > -- > Quentin Mathé > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev > _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
