I know that GUI does not cover most of functionalities, for good reasons - being specialized to task (like files app), it provides more fine-grained experience.
Yet, I find that there are common commands which is terminal-only, or not faithfully implemented. for instance,
- Commands like
apt update/apt upgrademight be needed, as GUI may not allow enough interactions with it. - I heard some immutable distros require running commands for rollbacks.
These could cause some annoyance for those who want to avoid terminal unless necessary (including me). Hence, I bet there are terminal emulators which restricts what commands you could run, and above all, present them as buttons. This will make you recall the commonly used commands, and run them accordingly. Is there projects similar to what I describe? Thanks!
For example, synaptic is a long running front end for apt that has the buttons for update and upgrade.
My idea is more to have (configurable) set of commands that you can run, where its results are received mostly as a text. In this way, you can interact via terminal more easily, I’d imagine.
so… you invented hotkeys?
What are hotkeys?
a configurable set of commands with a keyboard shortcut attached to them.
…Keyboard shortcuts are not necessarily the solution.
the shortcuts usually are associated with a button or menu item that could be pressed.
Let’s say … like a ScratchJr but for terminal commands …
You say that like it’s a bad thing, but, scratch exists. Further, you have to face that the "infantile " UI is trendy.
Wasn’t sarcastic at all! I do think the visual coding style can be an inspiration for cli also.