On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:22:50 -0600, "Jerry Amundson" <jamundso(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>> In fact, I hope more and more command line tools add this
GUI pop-up
>> feature. It's awesome.
>
> I'm curious, why is this awesome? It seems to me that if one has
> chosen to type commands into a terminal emulator that changing focus
> to a different window for further input violates the 'rule of least
> surprise'? Or is this some form of "GUI = good, CLI = bad" religion?
I agree with you.
I was being sarcastic to the person who preferred the current behavior.
Having a session-wide store for keys is awesome, which is why the
old ssh-agent existed in the first place! Logically if you log
through gdm, GNOME desktop is your session, and it ought to keep
your keys now. The old ssh-agent remains in the play only if you
continue using getty-initiated sessions and startx, in which case
the GNOME should defer to pre-existing session. If it doesn't then
file bugs.
As for the religion, I edit everything with gvim, because I want
something that a) support normal clipboard instead of middle-buttoning,
and b) would not destroy my files like gedit. It's launched from
the command line, of course. I guess it makes me spiritually
promiscuous.
-- Pete