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Published by Pete Goodeve
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Date Posted: |
February 15th, 2000
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Last Updated: |
August 26th, 2010
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License: |
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2,243 total; 236 recently |
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30,276 total |
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About xicon:
This little utility provides a couple of facilities for executing a shell script via icon-click that are not available otherwise: By default, a script is executed in a Terminal window, so the user can see results and interact with it. Other icons can be dragged and dropped onto the script icon as arguments. You can also invoke non-shell scripts (e.g. Python) directly in the same way.
(Xicon was originally written for BeOS R2 (!) so it has been around a while... And I still use it every day -- probably every few minutes, in fact. Every terminal application that I run regularly has an icon on the Desktop that I can just click on to execute it. I log in to my other machines and my ISP that way, and interactive Ruby and Python are also right there on the Desktop. Then there are the icons that I can drag files onto, such as one that removes pesky carriage-returns, one that turns plain text into HTML, and so on.)
You don't execute xicon directly: it is invoked automatically by any
script that has been set up suitably, when you either double-click on
that script's icon, or drag other icons onto it. If you drag icons onto
a script icon, they will be presented as command-line arguments to the
script. (A 'script' is a textual command-sequence file that would
otherwise be executed by typing a command line in a Terminal window.
This is most commonly a standard shell (bash) script, but may be in
any language that has an available command-line-invoked interpreter.)
The utility is intended as a convenient GUI-based mechanism for executing
user-written scripts -- to perform common sequences of operations on
files, for example. The procedure for associating a script with xicon
is detailed in the documentation.
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Haiku version |
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version 1.3-H(.2) - Freeware |
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Variation description:
This is the venerable original xicon code, with the minor necessary changes to run under Haiku. (Not suitable for BeOS, despite the stated "Minimum Version"!)
Details about this version:
As Haiku advances, glitches sometimes appear too! It seems that the original xicon package arrangement (from 2009) can get into serious installation trouble -- probably under alpha-1 and later -- ending up in an unuseable state that is hard to recover from.
I have therefore repackaged it so that it should now install on any Haiku system without problems. (The code itself is unchanged.)
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Intel Version - requires R5 (40 KB) |
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