Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
Well, there's a number of visual programming environments out there already and I can't see how this relates to elementary specifically. It's more of a project for the Raspberry Pi community. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Marco Benzi
I was thinking about a visual programming experience for the end user who might be unfamiliar with bash. Also, depending on implementation, the app could reach beyond the scope of elementary, becoming useful for other distros. Just my two cents. Cheers, Marco El 13-02-2014, a las 9:53, Sergey

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
I've looked up Automator in Wikipedia and I can't see how that's related to Contractor. Contractor is designed to be operated by the user, its actions are not designed to be automatable. Actually, automating such actions is an unrelated problem, but IMHO shell scripting suits that use case just fi

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Marco Benzi
I was wondering, since Contractor is taking shape, how possible is it to do an app like Automator? Marco El 13-02-2014, a las 7:45, Aniket Deole escribió: > We already have Cable > (http://elementaryluna.blogspot.in/2012/08/cable-new-irc-chat-client.html) > But that is not an "official" eleme

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Aniket Deole
We already have Cable ( http://elementaryluna.blogspot.in/2012/08/cable-new-irc-chat-client.html) But that is not an "official" elementary app. - Aniket On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Pepijn de Vos wrote: > A proper IRC client. > > I know Empathy does IRC, but

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Pepijn de Vos
A proper IRC client. I know Empathy does IRC, but it is unsuitable for real use. Try opening a few dozen channels in its tabbed interface. Try idling in a busy channel. All the real IRC clients either *are* a terminal app,  or look like terminal app in a GTK window. Compare some screens from Te