Contributor salec

User directories on ubuntu are easily a mess at the moment. They need more standardisation and more sense to remain clean. If you go to terminal/bash you may discover that your directory looks something like:


/home/auzy/Documents
/home/auzy/.Azureus (Hidden)
/home/auzy/.gnome2 (Hidden)
/home/auzy/Desktop
/home/auzy/.bashrc2 (Hidden)
/home/auzy/readme.rtf
/home/auzy/.Trash (Hidden)
/home/auzy/iffy.rtf
/home/auzy/delete me.rtf
/home/auzy/argggggg.c
/home/auzy/fgdhgfdhd.txt
/home/auzy/Music
/home/auzy/.ooffice (Hidden)
/home/auzy/friendsassignment.c
/home/auzy/friendsassignmentCopy.c
etc.


While you may note that anything with . is hidden normally, what if someone wants to delete the settings for a program? They need to manually unhide it, and sort through the dozens of directories in the home directory to find it. The problems with this is that:

a) Its messy, and certainly not a clean solution
b) Users cannot easily access their settings.
c) Everyones home directory is normally trashed with hundreds of other files, making it difficult to navigate.

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I hope there would be a small program that, when I press some key, for example, Super+`(like the bash `` grammar), a small terminal appears in the middle of the screen. If I type a command, it will take the previously selected text as input, and return the output(if there is) back to the keyboard cursor position. but stderr should be displayed in the terminal for other messages. The terminal will hide itself if no error occurs.

If there is no such keyboard cursor or it is read only, the returned text should be displayed in the terminal with a different color

for example: If I type "tr a-z A-Z", all of the selected text become uppercase
If I type "a=`cat`", the selected text is stored in bash variable $a and next time I can use "echo $a" to paste. perhaps sometimes alias a="echo `cat`" is better
If I type "wc -m >&2", it will just print how long the selected text is and do nothing to the original text
If I type "tor-resolve example.com" at the host setting in network-admin, the ip address is just here, without manually copying from a terminal
A friend asks me about "how many files are there in the folder of your personal work", "how much spaces are free in each partition of your hard drive", or "how is your /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim configured", I just need to answer him with a single command

It should not be limited to bash or shells, it should also work with programs like bc for calculations.

If possible, selected lists and files(as a list of file names) should work in the same way

there may be other great features like bash variable manager, and automatically switching commands taking a long time to background

Hope I'm not posting at the wrong place

When a file in Nautilus is deleted, it is moved to the trash. This is a great thing and easy to understand.

But if files are overwritten, they are really deleted and not moved to the trash. I think, this should be changed!

As a developer I can understand why this behavior was not implemented when the trash bin was introduced. But for a normal user this behavior seems to be inconsistent.

Let me explain why. Let's say I have some photos from a digi cam. Unfortunately the photos always have the same names (let's say starting from 001.jpg to 999.jpg). There is a folder "photos" where the user always stores his photos.
When the user deleted the old photos and imports the new ones, he can find the deleted ones in the trash bin. But when he directly imports the new one without removing the old ones, they are lost forever.
In my opinion this is inconsistent. The problem is, that the new 001.jpg is not an updated version of the old 001.jpg - instead it contains completely different and independent information.

This could be fixed at least by providing an option in Nautilus to move overwritten files to the trash.