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A strange "terminal emulator" idea I got, tho I bet this exists (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know that GUI does not cover most of functionalities, for good reasons - being specialized to task (like files app), it provides more fine-grained experience.

Yet, I find that there are common commands which is terminal-only, or not faithfully implemented. for instance,

Commands like apt update/apt upgrade might be needed, as GUI may not allow enough interactions with it.
I heard some immutable distros require running commands for rollbacks.

These could cause some annoyance for those who want to avoid terminal unless necessary (including me). Hence, I bet there are terminal emulators which restricts what commands you could run, and above all, present them as buttons. This will make you recall the commonly used commands, and run them accordingly. Is there projects similar to what I describe? Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

My idea is more to have (configurable) set of commands that you can run, where its results are received mostly as a text. In this way, you can interact via terminal more easily, I'd imagine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so.... you invented hotkeys?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are hotkeys?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

a configurable set of commands with a keyboard shortcut attached to them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

...Keyboard shortcuts are not necessarily the solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

the shortcuts usually are associated with a button or menu item that could be pressed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let's say ... like a ScratchJr but for terminal commands ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You say that like it's a bad thing, but, scratch exists. Further, you have to face that the "infantile " UI is trendy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Wasn't sarcastic at all! I do think the visual coding style can be an inspiration for cli also.