GSOC Idea

Hello,


 I aspire to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code. I propose
the idea of making a new intelligent and interactive terminal emulator with
rich GUI features. These are some of the improvements that I propose to
replace the current gnome-terminal:

   1.

         Seperate fields for Input and Output:

 Input and output are clearly seperated from each other in different text
fields.


 2. Flags associated with various terminal commands are shown as a checkbox
group with a brief description about the use of each flag:

   It reduces the effort in finding out the various flags associated with a
               command on man page and then executing the code. When a
command is typed
               the flag list automatically can be pops up a checklist
and recently used
               flags are automatically checked.

 3. Selective copy of recently used commands:

   A recently executed command can be selectively copied.

 e.g.: Previously executed command is:

gcc abc.c -lm -o abc.o

can be selectively copied as

gcc abc.c -o abc.o

 4. Intelligent selection of files with auto-correct feature:

   A filebrowser is shown in the side-bar when typing a file name in a
            command to guide the user in selecting the correct file.
By chance, the
            typed file is not found at the given location, the
terminal produces a list
            of best matches to the file in the nearby locations or
files of similar
            name.


 5. Storing startup commands:

A list of startup commands can be stored can be stored. These commands are

automatically executed at the start of terminal.


   1.

         Search manual pages for a particular keyword:

 A particular word can be searched from the 'man' pages for all the
available commands/a particular command. This way the user can find the
commands related to a particular keyword.

 7. Warning dialogs:

dialogs to alert the user a file is being deleted/super user permission is
required to execute a particular program/any other alert/warning/error
issued by the terminal. This makes the terminal more interactive.



   1.

         Auto-Corrections for mis-typed commands:

         When a particular command executed is not available. A close match
         is searched. If no close match is found, the repositories are
checked for
         any close match. If found the matches are displayed. If not
installed, it
         is automatically installed without the user having to type
sudo apt-get
         install or equivalent of it in other linux distributions. If a similar
         command has been successfully executed before with different flags are
         variables, they are suggested.

Tools used to make these : PyGTK+

RICH GUI elements like dialogs, popups, drop-down menus,etc. will be used
to make the interface intuitive.

These are a few additions which I suggest to make terminal user-friendly.
Please suggest your views and suggestions about my idea.


-RAJATH S
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus,
Pilani,
Rajasthan,
India

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