Changing default terminal about qgit

[tibirna]

@SubOptimal @bunyamintamar the 'Action' feature is not designed to be a full fledged shell interpreter. It is just meant to create simple scripts that are ran in a detached shell and then the output displayed in a text widget, which is not a terminal (it only reuses the desktop's standard terminal icon in the window title bar).

@bunyamintamar as described, the intention of 'Action' is not to provide a terminal, but you can actually start one by simply including it in an 'Action' script. You can choose whichever you want and I guess you could pass commands to it as indicated in that terminal's manual.

@SubOptimal to allow for edit boxes, follow the tip printed at the bottom of the 'Actions' dialog:

Just include %lineedit:title=defaultvalue% at the appropriate place in your command. The input-ed value will replace the %..% token.

[tibirna]

Minimal documentation exists in the QGit Handbook that you can access from the 'Help' menu. That one displays the content of the README.adoc file (of which you are already aware). Thanks Cristian

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 4:56 PM Frank Dietrich ***@***.***> wrote: @tibirna <https://github.com/tibirna> Thanks for the hint. I have not taken this into account. 🤦 To have a similar behavior like my zenity example. The following action code work as expected. value="%lineedit:enter value=defaults%" echo "the value is: ${value}" Is there some other documentation about those features than inputdialog.h#L9 <https://github.com/tibirna/qgit/blob/master/src/inputdialog.h#L9> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#126 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAJOWDS6ILJ7QK6ZPBSSDMTV22EBHANCNFSM54GMNPJQ> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[tibirna]

I'm not sure I understand. Please indicate which terminal you are refering to? Which part of the QGit UI should be replaced with the gnome terminal?

[bunyamintamar]

QGit's default terminal (for user script at Actions menu) does not allow user input. I think it would be nice to be able to use an external terminal.

[SubOptimal]

@tibirna Following as demonstration

Assume you define an action as

read value
echo $value

The execution will stuck, as the QGit action window does not allow any user input.

@bunyamintamar A possible solution would be to use a GUI input dialog.

value=$(zenity --entry)
echo "the value is: ${value}"

[SubOptimal]

@tibirna Thanks for the hint. I have not taken this into account. 🤦

To have a similar behavior like my zenity example. The following action code work as expected.

value="%lineedit:enter value=defaults%"
echo "the value is: ${value}"

Is there some other documentation about those features than inputdialog.h#L9

[bunyamintamar]

Thanks for the hint

[bunyamintamar]

Thanks for the hint