Yet another SOC 2010 project idea

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello Abhishek,

On 20.03.2010 15:20, Abhishek Sharma wrote:
> I am a GSOC 2010 aspirant and have a project idea regarding Ubuntu
> development. I am writing this hoping that SOC mentors shall give me
> some feedback on the genuineness of the idea.
> Well many end users of Linux still stick to the(I would rather say they
> love to) GUI as offered by gnome. But to every GUI app there is always
> an equivalent terminal app too, like for Rythmbox we have "cmus", for
> Network Manager we have system-config-network-tui. Similarly we do have
> alternatives for games. Thus the idea is to develop a port for every or
> many popular gnome apps so that users who may experience any problems in
> the GUI or just are intrigued to use terminal may click on the icon and
> open up the corresponding terminal app e.g  on the Title bar of
> Rhythmbox we may have  a small icon representing the terminal and as
> soon as the user clicks on it, Rhythmbox closes and "gnome-terminal"
> opens up with cmus running on it. That's all for the idea.

you might want to get in touch with the ubuntu-desktop mailing list
about the idea. It might well be that it'd fit better into a GNOME
project, maybe control-center. (Note that I'm not a member of the
Desktop team. Just my thoughts as far as I understood things. :-))

Have a great day,
 Daniel