Ubuntu offers to programmers many choices of programming languages and integrated development environments. However, although programming in Ubuntu may be easy, advanced features, such as the implementation of a graphical user interface or the deployment of the finished application to other computers are not intuitive.

For instance, GTK and WxWidgets are great options, but integrating them usually requires a lot of routine coding and some expert knowledge in order to integrate them in the IDE.

It would be great to work with the available IDEs in order to offer an easier integration of the graphical interface in the application developed with these IDEs.

Idea ;

Advances

In the event that a GUI system becomes available for accessing the CLI (command line interface), the following additional advancements could be made;

1) Commands could be arranged in pipes by using a graphical manipulator similar to the patchboxes and GUIs used for linking software audio devices.
The command is given its own "black box" (click on it to see internal properties). It has its input and output. Connect the boxes together with lines to form your command pipe.

2) Drag and drop method of concatenating commands, taking output from one process to the input of another.

3) "black box" could be any thing from a GUI created script, through to a fully automated process done by a large program.

An example of an automated program in a pipe;
(use of Graphics editor and FTP programs)

Inside one box;
Open picture in editor,
detect extremities (head feet arms) of subjects,
remove tilt of camera,
crop to extremities of subject,
color adjustment,
resize to common width,
save as jpeg optimised to 20 to 30kB,
close editor.


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