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Shades of COMShades of COMPosted Jan 25, 2012 18:42 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)Parent article: Shuttleworth: Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.
Step 1: Make menu items of the current application invokable by searching for them.
Step 2: Make menu items of open applications invokable via the command line. Step 3: Make some menu items of non-open applications invokable via the command line. Step 4: IPC forever.
It's starting to smell kind of DCOPy in here.
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Shades of COM Posted Jan 25, 2012 21:42 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Pipes and redirection are also methods of IPC, you know. And it's based on DBus, which was based on DCOP. So, yes, IPC.
I don't see why that's a problem.
Shades of COM Posted Jan 27, 2012 14:52 UTC (Fri) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] There is no problem; I love IPC, DCOP and dbus. This is just a really good idea.
Shades of COM Posted Jan 27, 2012 2:26 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
Mac OS X has had all 4 of those steps for a long while too:
cat <<EOF | osascript -
That'll launch the app if it's not running yet, too.
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