Plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application
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HN comment orderThis seems like an answer to KDE‘s KCommandBar https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/21/this-week-in-kde-kcomm...
I’ve always pictured the opposite—rather than taking a GUI and bolting on “fake” command-line like features, why not have a base-class for GUI “main” windows that’s essentially already a true, fully-featured terminal emulator showing the stdin/stdout of the executing process? Then, as you would add graphical controls to the main window in the layout builder, the terminal-emulator-interface part of the window would get squished down further until it just looks like a status-bar. (Which is essentially what status…
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- 245
- Total comments
- 64
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-20 | Plotinus:A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application | bharatkalluri | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-02-13 | Plotinus – A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ applicationFirst breakout | Fnoord | 101 | 24 |
| 2021-05-22 | Plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ applicationBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | ingve | 143 | 40 |