Hallo, Paul Davis hat gesagt: // Paul Davis wrote: > no, no. i am talking about being in a file browser, not in a document > editor. lets say i find foo.txt or bar.png or baz.pdf and i want to > print it. what do i do? > > because in a command line environment i don't have to start up an > editor, i just type "lpr foo.txt". ... and thus fire up the "printor" software. ;) > it seems to me that this *must* be > possible from the GUI equivalent, but in GNOME at least i cannot find > it. I guess something like Print is in the context menu of a lot of GUI environments. It is in Windows, I guess it should be in Gnome as well. But the point is, that a context menu is only so long, it starts to get uncomfortable with more than a dozen entries. However in the command line you have hundreds or even thousands of commands at your fingertips. Just press TAB-TAB. If you want to print or if you want to run a word count, if you want to upload with scp or whatever: It's all there. To my knowledge the command line is the most flexible and powerful "context menu" invented so far. Similar things can be said about using textfiles and an editor for configurations and settings. Where is the Settings GUI that lets you do such a simple thing as add and store your own comment to a certain dialog entry? - Not in Ardour AFAIK. ;) Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
