Gnome3 RFE discussion !?

[夜神 岩男]

On 12/28/2011 01:21 AM, Joe Wulf wrote:
> I'd also suggest having the ability to manage/initiate much of what you
> are talking about from the command-line.
> Additionally, the ability to have a script initiate
> windows/sessions/programs/applications on a named workspace, would be
> invaluable.

If that's not already possible then its news to me. I automate away most 
of my office busy work with shell scripts that call OO/LO (depending on 
the office... I've even done that in a somewhat more difficult way on 
Windows with Powershell and MSOffice, now that Powershell is available 
and documented), do my clicky-clicky crap work, and present me a product 
to check over instead of create. A LOT of office drugery can be killed 
this way -- its an unfortunate fact of life that most office workers 
don't realize how easy things can be when done this way...

Come to think of it, you can script GIMP, Inkscape, all the office 
suites, email programs, browsers (lynx work especially well this way 
because it has a text-stream-to-stdout option...), etc. to do things, so 
I'm not sure what you're missing other than perhaps just not having had 
experience in this yourself yet.

But I bet you're going to give it a shot now that you know...

Some of it *is* a bit tedious to learn, but its faster/cheaper than 
doing it the Big Boy way and learning everything there is to know about 
Postrges or hiring a DBA and application dev team to automate your work 
that way (if you go that route, though, you'll quickly wind up with a 
sellable ERP solution... which is also cool).