Hello world, Hotwire 0.599 is out with a fairly large UI rework (see changes for details), basic infrastructure for plugins, and a number of bugfixes.
Source Download link: http://hotwire-shell.googlecode.com/files/hotwire-0.599.zip Changes: http://code.google.com/p/hotwire-shell/wiki/HotwireChanges Home page: http://hotwire-shell.org Hotwire is: * A modern, hybrid text/graphical shell for developers and system administrators * A replacement for gnome-terminal/xterm + /bin/sh on Linux/Unix * A replacement for Windows PowerShell on Windows (once we fix Windows bugs) * Also slightly influenced by MacOS X Automator * Free Software and runs on Linux (with GNOME) and Windows (see above) * Written in Python Changes copy/paste from wiki: == Changes in Hotwire 0.599 (Current Release) == Visible changes: * Menu items added. * New display UI for commands; there is an "overview" mode, and old commands don't always take up space. * Completed commands are now automatically removed 5 minutes after completion * Add basic support for user plugins in ~/.hotwire/plugins * Added builtin editor for when subprocesses invoke $EDITOR but the variable isn't set, because the default editor on most platforms requires a terminal. * Support for common-prefix completion; if you have several files named foo-x.c, foo-y.c, TAB will fill in from f to foo-. * Allocate a PTY when executing subprocesses; this forces them to be line-buffered so Hotwire gets output immediately. * Initial support for terminal codes (right now just backspace); this makes progress bars drawn by e.g. rpm work. * "ls" outputs filenames in locale order Notable bugfixes: * Disable Ctrl-T/Ctrl-N keybindings when in terminal tab. * Avoid passing through Ctrl-shift-C to terminal (i.e. copy/paste won't interrupt subprocesses) * Correctly handle globs for non-current directories (Issue #10). * Make first path item clickable (issue #9). * Work on older PyGTK releases * Require exact matches for automatic command resolution (e.g. typing "foo RET" won't auto-expand to /usr/bin/foomatic) _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
