TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
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Re: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#2Some interesting ideas there. He doesn't link to discussion of similar projects: I was reminded of Commander S: http://www.deinprogramm.de/scheme-2005/05-knauel/05-knauel.p...
I've not been able to build Termkit yet, mind.
Re: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#3Great. Looks awesome and is much needed.
It should be possible to map the output for the Current Working Host too.
So:
home> ssh Server1
Server1> ls
server1file.bin
server1file.bin
scp Server1:server1file.binRe: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#4As much as the prospect of Webkit in my terminal makes me uncomfortable, I think this is amazing. The terminal is probably my most used application and any effort towards making it better is awesome.
(P.S. - Apart from this, unconed has also been a prolific Drupal contributor and done some amazing visualization work for Winamp. Awesome hacker.)
Re: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#5I just looked at this through the github link. Looks very nice and useful.
Too bad it's very much bound to MacOSX/Cocoa, so this kind of rules it out as general nextgen UNIX/Linux shell.
Re: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#6Many times you need to look beneath the veneer of abstractions that is the modern GUI, to work with speed and flexibility. However you don't want to strip away all the abstractions. That would yield the system very unwieldy. (example: Programming in C vs Programming in Assembly) The Unix command prompt is just the right amount of abstraction for me, and for many other users.
What the project proposes is certainly novel, and this level of abstraction may work for some people.
Re: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#7Awesome highly recommended Linux terminal, allows GUI splitting and has very almost 100% key-shortcut coverage: http://www.tenshu.net/terminator/
Re: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#8I just looked at this through the github link. Looks very nice and useful. Too bad it's very much bound to MacOSX/Cocoa, so this kind of rules it out as general nextgen UNIX/Linux shell.
From the article it sounds like most of the heavy UI is implemented using webkit and HTML/CSS/JS. Wouldn't this make it reasonably easy to port to *nix?
Re: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#9I just looked at this through the github link. Looks very nice and useful. Too bad it's very much bound to MacOSX/Cocoa, so this kind of rules it out as general nextgen UNIX/Linux shell.
From the article it sounds like most of the heavy UI is implemented using webkit and HTML/CSS/JS. Wouldn't this make it reasonably easy to port to *nix?
I have no clue, I looked in the github repos very quickly and saw all kind of scary .m files and I gave up :)
If it's mainly HTML/js/webkit based then it would not be hard to port it to a portable window toolkit such as Qt4 (which has a QWebKit widget...).
Re: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
#10Many times you need to look beneath the veneer of abstractions that is the modern GUI, to work with speed and flexibility. However you don't want to strip away all the abstractions. That would yield the system very unwieldy. (example: Programming in C vs Programming in Assembly) The Unix command prompt is just the right amount of abstraction for me, and for many other users. What the project proposes is certainly nov…
Exactly, I think if you are a hacker you will stick with the shell the way it is, because knowing how stuff works with "zero" abstractions is power.
Reminds me of this: http://i.imgur.com/jqIcv.jpg
Also I mean as a hacker, not as an entrepreneur.