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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:32:20 JST minute

   little productivity thing for linux that i would like: terminal integration of the XDG (?) "Recent" folder. make it an actual Folder ~/Recent with links to the files, or a FUSE fs. i often have to integrate console and desktop tools and this would make it less painful.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:34:48 JST minute

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     also would be nice to have a little more mouse interactivity integration in terminals. when i type `ls`, give me an icon next to each result that has a context menu or lets me drag that file handle to another app, or copy the path / open with. i.e. make a hybrid of file explorer and terminal.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:38:42 JST minute

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     a DE on linux could really embrace and amplify the fact that linux people have to use the terminal a lot. instead of trying to hide that and emulate windows or mac os, integrate this duality really well.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:40:33 JST minute

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     • Sofie :verified_gay:

     @soupglasses ohhh yeah i used to do that a lot on mac os

   • Sofie :verified_gay: (soupglasses@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:40:34 JST Sofie :verified_gay:

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     @mntmn And i have `xdg-open` aliased to `open`. Which is one of my most used shortcuts. Any file i want to touch graphically is just a `open image.jpg` away.

     Also really handy is to do `open .` to open the current folder in your file manager.

   • Sofie :verified_gay: (soupglasses@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:40:35 JST Sofie :verified_gay:

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     @mntmn You should look at midnight commander `mc`.

     While not drag and drop, it is a more hybrid version of a file explorer and terminal. I have long thought of experimenting with a more modern take on the Norton Commander layout.

   • phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:43:09 JST phryk 🏴

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     @mntmn As somebody who might start developing their own DE in the next couple years… would you mind telling me a bit more?

     I read the rest of your thread and most of this would seem to be stuff that shells and terminals have to do, not the DE.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:45:48 JST minute

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     • Sofie :verified_gay:

     @soupglasses the latter is really interesting. i have a feeling that xdg mimetypes are constantly messed up. so a replacement that you can only set up explicitly/where explicit manual rules have priority would be nice.

   • Sofie :verified_gay: (soupglasses@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 21:45:49 JST Sofie :verified_gay:

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     @mntmn I have also created a `l` shortcut to print directories and pager print files for me.

     I have also had the thought to create an `edit` shortcut that could open a wide variety of files for editing explicitly (nvim, gimp, audacity, etc). This however im uncertain if XDG can handle, and would require my own lookup table for mimetypes. :revblobfoxread:

   • Luka Rubinjoni (rubinjoni@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 22:02:46 JST Luka Rubinjoni

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     @mntmn Something like RSrutudio, but for Gnome. A GUI file manager with a terminal pane and a manual pane.

   • Çağatay Yiğit Şahin (cagatayy@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 22:08:11 JST Çağatay Yiğit Şahin

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     @mntmn This reminded me of https://hisham.hm/userland/

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 22:34:46 JST minute

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     • Björn Gohla

     @6d03 i have tried plan9 a few times and it is not like this?

   • Björn Gohla (6d03@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 22:34:47 JST Björn Gohla

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     @mntmn sounds like you want plan9

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 22:35:53 JST minute

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     • Sofie :verified_gay:

     @soupglasses omg yes

   • Sofie :verified_gay: (soupglasses@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 22:35:54 JST Sofie :verified_gay:

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     @mntmn This is something i am personally angry at. Especially with regards to wine packaging.

     I really do think one can easily solve a lot of xdg mimetype mismatches by packaging for usability, rather than packaging for what upstream gives you.

     :blobfoxnotlikethis:

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 01:20:36 JST minute

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     • Will Thompson

     @wjt yep, i know, so maybe patching a context menu in there with some more options would be a low-hanging fruit

   • Will Thompson (wjt@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 01:20:37 JST Will Thompson

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     @mntmn There is an escape sequence to mark a region as a hyperlink. `ls --hyperlink=auto` emits it and VTE-based terminals (and surely others) can consume it. Ctrl+clicking any of the dotted-underlined filenames in this screenshot opens that file in the Graphviz viewer I have installed.