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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Pipe-Support for KDE
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-09-21 9:39:01
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Hi Sven,

You're idea is certainly usefull. It has come up in the past already
a few times. It's basically waiting for someone to implement it.
I'll forward it to our development list. Maybe someone will pick it 
up.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just was thinking about the KDE GUI and I have the following
> proposal for a feature.
> 
> One of the most powerful structures in an UNIX OS are pipelines,
> where the output of on programm becomes the input of the next,
> and so on.
> 
> I think, this can quite easily be accessed from a GUI: Each
> possible pipeline element (a "filter") appares in the context
> menu of a file, depending on its mime type. The menu cascades,
> and offers the next set of possible filters, depending on the
> output mime type of the previous filter. (Thus, for each filter,
> input and output mimetype have to be maintained.) Additionally,
> possible pipe end point (like e. g. kless, a text editor, a mail
> tool, etc.) are listed in the (cascaded) context menu. Maybe
> filter should be able to open pop-up-Windows for additional
> setting.
> 
> This is for shure not a complete concept, just an idea of how
> pipeline can be accessed via a GUI. I think this open up an
> oppurtunity for a modularization of many tasks. It would, if done
> well, allow for commands like:
> 
> cat /var/log/messages | grep sendmail | mail postmaster@my.org
> 
> to be composed via a GUI -- by clicking right on
> /var/log/messages, select grep from context menu, select mail
> from cascading context menu. In an ideal world, a window would
> appear and ask a) for the text to grep for and b) for the
> parameters passed to mail (or even for the subject and mail
> adress, sending mail via kmail).
> 
> If you consider my proposal relevant for further KDE development,
> I would be glad if you forward my mail to the appropriate
> developpers/gui mailing lists.
> 
> Thanks for you attention,
> 
> Sven Niedner
> -- 
> Sven Niedner, Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik
> Physics of Toroidal Plasmas,
> http://www.psychologie.uni-kiel.de/~niedner

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