little productivity thing for linux that i would like: terminal integration of the XDG (?) "Recent" folder. make it an actual Folder ~/Recent with links to the files, or a FUSE fs. i often have to integrate console and desktop tools and this would make it less painful.
also would be nice to have a little more mouse interactivity integration in terminals. when i type ls, give me an icon next to each result that has a context menu or lets me drag that file handle to another app, or copy the path / open with. i.e. make a hybrid of file explorer and terminal.
While not drag and drop, it is a more hybrid version of a file explorer and terminal. I have long thought of experimenting with a more modern take on the Norton Commander layout.
@mntmn And i have xdg-open aliased to open. Which is one of my most used shortcuts. Any file i want to touch graphically is just a open image.jpg away.
Also really handy is to do open . to open the current folder in your file manager.
@mntmn I have also created a l shortcut to print directories and pager print files for me.
I have also had the thought to create an edit shortcut that could open a wide variety of files for editing explicitly (nvim, gimp, audacity, etc). This however im uncertain if XDG can handle, and would require my own lookup table for mimetypes. :revblobfoxread:
@soupglasses the latter is really interesting. i have a feeling that xdg mimetypes are constantly messed up. so a replacement that you can only set up explicitly/where explicit manual rules have priority would be nice.
@mntmn There is an escape sequence that can include links (e.g.: file:///path/to/file) in terminals. A terminal could potentially allow a right click menu.
a DE on linux could really embrace and amplify the fact that linux people have to use the terminal a lot. instead of trying to hide that and emulate windows or mac os, integrate this duality really well.
@mntmn A thing that I've personally been pondering for a long time is the addition of a new basic stream besides stdin, -out and -error to hold structured data that can be visualized while a program is running. Things from simple progress bars for cp to complex graphs could be done this way – but I kinda think I'd have to write a new OS from scratch for that… ^^;
@phryk well you can always represent structured information how ever you want if enough structure exists. The problem is that currently that structure doesn't exist in posix.
I remeber in the 2010s there was some webkit-based terminal solution which was aiming to do something like you are suggesting, but I could never remember or find it any more 😓
@dngrs Huh, I actually was not aware of that. Is it straight-up FOSS? I mean I won't use it personally because MS, but code access would be nice for further research.
@mntmn There is an escape sequence to mark a region as a hyperlink. ls --hyperlink=auto emits it and VTE-based terminals (and surely others) can consume it. Ctrl+clicking any of the dotted-underlined filenames in this screenshot opens that file in the Graphviz viewer I have installed.
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