On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 1:44 AM, mangatmodi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well nautilus can never compete terminal > yes, agree, But I never said this. > I use terminal for 90% of my work beacause of it's insane power > GUI is pretty much limited to it's design, but there is no limit on > terminal. > > Agree, But have you ever installed Ubuntu Or anyother distro to new user, students Or gov departments ? They will run away from simple command too. So basic idea for this activity to give simple interface. By the way following are the tasks for which I use terminal, may be > you could incorporate them in Nautilus > > - Automating tasks in crontab > -Shell scripts, most of them are related to networking > example ?? Like 1) What is my IP 2) Shart Webserver Here (call webshare on current directory, but how to stop then ?) 3) Download - (it will use wget being it ) 4) Diffuse - right click on one or two files and view difference 5) search packages 6) Start/Stop Recording (using byzanz-record) 7) Convert to executable (behind the scene it will call chmod +x <filename> ) 8) Fileinfo - Give popup menu using file commad 9) Add Google DNS - It will append google DNS to /etc/resolv.conf 10) launch remote share - user will give IP, It will open smb://ip in nautius etc 11) Killall -> right click and Killall. this will popup with input. type application name to kill -Every day tasks like managing files, disks etc. > > On Apr 10, 7:58 pm, narendra sisodiya <[email protected]> > wrote: > > May you list down the tasks for which you need terminal ? > > You can go to terminal and apply history command to view it. > > #history > > > > idea is to give nautilus right click menu scripts for all such possible > > tasks. > > > > -- > > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > > │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) > > │ Society for Knowledge Commons > > │ Web :http://narendra.techfandu.org > > └─────────────────────────┘ > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
