Command Bar

Status

• Needs design

  Design in progress

  Needs implementation

  Implementation in progress

  Stable

Goals

• Provide a command line interface into the internals of Builder
• Allow developers to optimize their workflow around their own process

• Allow executing commands provided in JavaScript-based local rc-style configuration

• Autocompletion of commands based on command provider availability

Implementation Details

• Uses <Control>space to activate or : in a VIM editor (we can possibly change this)

• Allow for custom command providers (GbCommandProvider in src/commands/)

• This should double as the VIM command entry (src/command/gb-command-provider-vim.c)

Potential Improvements

• Use the GbCommandResult API to track long running tasks (like updating an OSTree instance)

• Allow for simple commands like a calculator or hex/chr conversions

Prior Art

FireFox

Screenshots

Here is what things look like as of Nov 17, 2014.