On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:32 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > At a technical level, I wish that GNOME made it easier to relate > the visible GUI level to the underlying level of the command line
As an aside, one thing I find myself doing a lot of is: $ cd ~/some/path $ command $ another Hm. This would be easier graphically... $ gnome-open . which pops Nautilus up at ~/some/path. [hey neat] And meanwhile, when I've been navigating around in Nautilus for a while and suddenly am getting annoyed that I'm not on the command line, I can (via the nautilus-open-terminal plugin which is packaged in Debian & Gentoo), <RightClick> context menu -> Open in Terminal and ta-da, $ echo $PWD /home/andrew/some/path $ [hey neat :)] which all makes for a nice duality and quite nice switching between graphical and command-line paradigms. [yes yes, you can just pop a terminal and chdir, but that's not the point. This is easier, and context driven] Anyway, not quite what Richard was getting at; his message describes a more general and pervasive case, but this all is a good step in that direction. AfC Sydney
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