Termipal
Dev tools
script dialog ui
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
5 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice idea that fills a gap for shell script UIs
From 3 comments
I really like this idea! Maybe it's the Christmas season but I was feeling a little wistful for the old days of fun little OS X utilities. This is a beaut :)
johnzim on HNNice!!
svmegatron on HNAh, finally someone did this! I've had this same idea for forever but never got around to implementing it.
oxguy3 on HN
Objections
Opens a possible attack surface for terminal users
From 2 comments
Things like this (terminal add-ons like graphical layers and image viewers and so on) are only going to end badly. What's so special about the terminal is the immunity the user…
rsync on HNPretending that terminal or command line applications are immune to a very common mode of attack, even to them, is itself dangerous thinking. This could potentially add a new…
chungy on HN
Does not work with fullscreen terminals
From 1 comment
It actually didn't occur to me to try that until now. Looks like it doesn't work because it's a different process and its window can't be composited on top of the fullscreen app.…
pavlov on HN
Does not work on Linux
From 1 comment
TLDR: doesn't work on linux
sam0x17 on HN
Requests
More documentation and examples
From 3 comments
Needs more examples certainly. Still, nice work!
DenisM on HNLooks interesting! The website could use some more screenshots showing off what's possible.
topher200 on HNThis looks super interesting, but is there api documentation some where? Is there a way for it to output a shell command directly or can it only print?
empath75 on HN
Touch Bar support
From 1 comment
Would be kinda cool if, on a MacBook Pro, it moved the Termipal UI onto the TouchBar :)
satysin on HN
Questions
How does it behave with fullscreen terminal or tmux
From 2 comments
> For maximum convenience, Termipal automatically attaches to the bottom edge of your terminal window. What does Termipal do if you have terminal full screen?
duck on HNLooks nifty, however I’m mostly always running my terminals either in full- or split screen. How would this work in these cases? Does it work from within a tmux-session? A neat…
hultner on HN
Whether it works with iTerm2
From 1 comment
Pretty neat. I don't suppose this works with iTerm2?
twobyfour on HN
Alternatives named
zenity
From 1 comment
Looks a lot like the good ol' zenity: https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.24/
arximboldi on HN
dialog and whiptail
From 2 comments
Which (IIRC) is like xdialog for gtk, which is like dialog for X11.
egwynn on HNThere's also alternative to the `dialog` called `whiptail`.
vthriller on HN
Pashua
From 1 comment
For the Mac there's also Pashua: https://www.bluem.net/en/projects/pashua/ which lets you generate a GUI for shell scripts.
willcodeforfoo on HN
Tcl/Tk
From 1 comment
What use cases does this have that Tcl/Tk doesn't?
gaius on HN