Verve: Command line plugin

[Erik Harrison]

On 2/4/06, Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> Erik Harrison schrieb:
> > On 2/4/06, Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> >
> >>Jannis Pohlmann schrieb:
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>during the last three days, I've been busy on implementing an enhanced
> >>>alternative to the current minicmd plugin for the panel. It's not
> >>>intended to be a replacement, I just wrote it out of personal interest
> >>>in GTK+, C and the magic of ThunarVFS (which is not used at the moment,
> >>>but certainly will be).
> >>>
> >>>This plugin already features:
> >>>
> >>>  - autocompletion for binaries in $PATH and 'virtual' commands (via
> >>>    <Tab> key)
> >>>  - custom 'virtual' commands (see below)
> >>>  - opening eMail addresses and URLs using exo-open (from SVN)
> >>>
> >>>Features to be implemented in the near future:
> >>>
> >>>  - command history browsing like in minicmd
> >>
> >>Done. I updated the tarball. You can now browse your already executed
> >>commands via GDK_Up/GDK_Down (well, up and down arrows, hehe).
> >>
> >
> >
> > I'm taking a look at it now. Very nice, though I'd drop a copy of
> > scons-local in the top of the tree, and add a makfile to drive scons,
> > for ease of use
>
> That's a good idea, perhaps I'll do this. I also could imagine dropping
> SCons in favour of autoconf and co., but the whole environment and
> project structure is so blown up with it. I don't like it.

Do what works. But asking the user to install SCon is a bit much.
Which is the whole point of SCons local. ANd the makefile means that
pretty much everyone's intuition will work.

You could even have a configure script to check for the existence of
python, so that SCons can run, and then writes the makefile, without
using the autoconf build chain

>
> - Jannis
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Erik

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