Suggestion: shell on window's back

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

El Jueves, 19 de Noviembre de 2009, Marvin Lampe escribió:
> Everyone will surely know a situation like that: You're running a program
> for a while and suddenly something unexpected happens. The application
> crashes, freezes or gets insufferable slow.
> You forgot to start the program inside a console before, and now can't get
> any information for debugging. The conditions which led to the crash
> aren't reproducible (you don't remember what you did since
> the launch of the program or you just have no idea what the hell caused
> the crash) and you can't solve the problem now. The only thing you can do
> is to wait until the problem occurs again and then hopefully
> have started the application inside a shell...
> 
> I think it would be nice to have a feature for displaying the stdout of an
> application in a handy way without having to start it in a separate
> console.
> Every time a new application gets launched, there should be a shell
> starting with it. The main problem with this is that the shell would be
> quite annoying until it gets useful. It consumes place in
> your window list and is floating around your desktop. So my idea here is
> to put that console on the process' window back, and allow the user to
> flip the window by a quadruple click,
> pulling the lower right corner to the upper right or something like that,
> perhaps with a nice compositing effect :-).
> The possible problem of several child windows by one single application
> (for example in The Gimp) could be solved by displaying the stdout of the
> root process on the back of every child window.
> 
> I would appreciate you to comment on this.

A great idea ;)


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc at aliax.net>