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Groups of FE subsystem images below:
xpg Images
feNautilusScripts Images
feAppMenus Images
feHandyTools Images
! Note !
Many of the screenshots here are slightly out-of-date,
but they indicate the appearance of the various FE GUI's.
The GUI screenshots here may be updated occasionally
--- and more screenshots may be added --- to show
new FE GUI's or to illustrate additional features
of the previously represented GUI's.
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NOTE: 'feHandyTools' is being replaced by the 'tkGooies' system. The 'feHandyTools' GUI images are similar to 'tkGooies' images, but the 'feHandyTools' images may be replaced someday by the newer 'tkGooies' GUI images. |
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'xpg' subsystem images (XP) :
(where 'xpg' --- ex-pee-gee ---
is an abbreviation of 'X-pager')
XP-1a. Note the 'all-powerful' 'ShowAllMatches' (SAM) button. |
XP-1b. Note the 'Backward', 'CaseSense' and 'RegExp' buttons which apply to the 'Search (again)' button. This image definitely needs to be updated. There are now 'SAM' options, below the 'ShowAllMatches' (SAM) button. And there is an 'EditVars' button to the right of the 'Colors' and 'TxtFont' buttons. |
XP-2a. |
XP-2b. |
XP-3a. In particular: The font in the main 'text' widget of the 'xpg' GUI --- and the font in the 'button' widgets (the 'drawers') of the toolchests of the 'feAppMenus' and 'feHandyTools' subsystems. |
XP-3b. There have been some minor changes to appearance of the FE FontSelector GUI. These images need an update. |
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XP-4: A copy of the 'xpg', 'feColorSelector', and 'feFontSelector' utilities is also provided in the 'feAppMenus' subsystem and in the 'feHandyTools' (and 'tkGooies') subsystem. It is a bit of a pain to keep the copies of 'xpg' and 'feColorSelector' and 'feFontSelector' synchronized in several FE subsystems --- but, for example, this allows people to install the 'feAppMenus' system, without having to install the 'xpg' and 'feColorSelector' and 'feFontSelector' utilities separately, in addition to installing 'feAppMenus'.
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'feNautilusScripts' subsystem images (NS) :
NS-1a. This FE menu is shown after right-clicking on a file in a directory and then moving the mouse cursor over the 'Scripts >' option of the Nautilus file-manager popup menu --- which is the menu seen on the left in this image. The 'top-level' 'feNautilusScripts' menu holds eleven of the main, most-used categories of 'feNautilusScripts'. Note the 'zMORE' option at the bottom of the top-level 'feNautilusScripts' menu. It provides a menu of about 15-plus more categories of scripts. The names of all these categories, including the 'zMORE' name, are the actual names of sub-directories of the $HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts directory. The categories are in alphabetic order, the same order seen when the directories are listed by the Nautilus file manager. |
NS-1b. Note the 15-plus additional categories of FE Nautilus Scripts, in numero-alphabetic order, starting with '3Dtools'. This image could use an update. The names of a few of these categories have been changed slightly --- and a couple of more categories have been added. |
NS-2a. The entries on this menu, and on the other categories menus,below, are the actual names of the FE Nautilus Script files. This image (and several others here) could use an update. The names of the scripts in this category have been changed to follow a standardized naming convention --- and many scripts have been added. |
NS-2b. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and many scripts have been added. (See images in next row.) The script naming convention is described on an 'feNautilusScripts' NAMING CONVENTION web page. |
NS-3a. This image shows 'standardized' script names that were devised in early 2012, about a year-and-a-half after 'feNautilusScripts' was first released. This image also shows that many scripts have been added --- compared to the previous image, above. |
NS-3b. This image shows 'standardized' script names that were devised in early 2012, about a year-and-a-half after 'feNautilusScripts' was first released. These 'CHANGEfiles' scripts are for general file changes, like general renaming of files. Changes to special file types, such as 'media' files, are done in other 'feNautilusScripts' groups, such as 'IMAGEtools' and 'VIDEOtools'. |
NS-4a. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and many scripts have been added. |
NS-4b. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and many scripts have been added. |
NS-5a. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and many scripts have been added. Also several SUB-CATEGORIES (sub-directories) have been added. |
NS-5b. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and some scripts have been added. Also a SUB-CATEGORY (sub-directory) has been added --- to show helps at 'external' web pages. |
NS-6a. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and some scripts have been added. The 'PROCESSlists' menu has been renamed to the 'PROC-MEMlists' menu. |
NS-6b. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and many scripts have been added. |
NS-7a. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and some scripts have been added. |
NS-7b. This image needs an update. The script names have been standardized, and many scripts have been added. Also several SUB-CATEGORIES (sub-directories) have been added. |
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NS-8. In mid-2012, those 'less-used' menus were still having scripts added to them, and the category names had not 'settled down' yet. The following images show examples of the several kinds of 'zenity' dialog prompts that are used in the 'feNautilusScripts' to prompt for responses from the user. |
NS-z1a. This is a 'zenity --entry' prompt for the '01_anyfile_show_manHELP4topic_...' script --- in the 'LinuxHELPS' group. As you can see, the 'zenity --entry' prompt allows for giving plenty of explanatory text for the prompt. In this case, many examples of proper input for this script are presented on the 'zenity' window. |
NS-z1b. This image comes from a change-string-in-filename(s) script in the 'CHANGEfiles' group of 'feNautilusScripts'. |
NS-z2a. The user simply clicks the OK button to dismiss the dialog window. This image comes from a jpeg EXIF data inquiry script in the 'IMAGEtools' group of 'feNautilusScripts'. |
NS-z2b. The user simply clicks a 'radio-button' and then clicks on the OK button to pass the selection to the calling script. This image comes from a show-log-files script in the 'LOGfiles' group of the 'zMORE' group of 'feNautilusScripts'. |
NS-z3a. This image comes from the script '01e_anyfile_show_X-FONTS_xfd.sh' in the 'FONTtools' group of the 'zMORE' group of 'feNautilusScripts'. |
NS-z3b. This image comes from a 2nd prompt in the script '01e_anyfile_show_X-FONTS_xfd.sh' in the 'FONTtools' group of the 'zMORE' group of 'feNautilusScripts'. The 1st prompt asks for a font 'family' name. The 2nd prompt asks for one of the X-font names that exist within that font family. These X-font names are becoming obsolete because scalable fonts, like 'TrueType' fonts, are more flexible for choosing from a wide range of sizes within a font family. |
NS-z4a. This 'zenity' prompt is from one of the 'feNautilusScripts' in the 'SPACElists' group. |
NS-z4b. This 'zenity' prompt can return a selected date to a calling script. This zenity prompt is used in an 'feNautilusScript' in the 'OFFICEtools' group of the 'zMORE' group --- to simply show a calendar. |
'feAppMenus' subsystem images (AM):
AM-1a. You will see below how you can easily add/change/delete drawers of this menu. |
AM-1b. The 'ChgColor' button starts up the FE ColorSelector GUI that is shown in the 'xpg' images section above. |
AM-2. Clicking on the 'EditChest' button puts you in edit mode (via an editor of your choice) on a '.chestdef' file that defines the drawers of the chest. By editing that '.chestdef' file, you can add/delete/change drawers in the chest. This includes changing the executables that execute when you click on the drawer, as well as changing the short and long drawer descriptions that appear on the left and right portions of the expanded toolchest. You can even change the icons that appear on the left of the drawers --- by changing icon filenames in the '.chestdef' file. The format of the '.chestdef' file is very simple. The format is explained in the documentation that is shown by clicking on the 'Help' button at the bottom of any of the toolchests. The Help is in a text file that is QUICKLY shown with 'xpg'. (Don't you hate help that takes about half a minute or more to start up?) |
AM-3a. The 'ChgFont' button starts up the FE FontSelector GUI that is shown in the 'xpg' images section above. |
AM-3b. These two images were taken when Tcl-Tk 8.4 was installed on my machine. With the Tcl-Tk 8.5 'wish' (window shell) interpreter, the fonts are anti-aliased. The 'feAppMenus' images in this section are NOT anti-aliased, because the screenshots were taken before I switched to Tcl-Tk 8.5. Many of the screenshots in the 'feHandyTools' section, below, will be anti-aliased, because the screenshots were taken after I switched to Tcl-Tk 8.5. |
AM-4a. These are 20 categories that I find useful. As indicated above, you can use the 'EditChest' button on this toolchest to edit the '.chestdef' file that defines this toolchest. So you can add/change/delete categories --- and you can even add a 'More' drawer to this toolchest to make a 'continuation-toolchest' of application categories. Or you can consolidate down to about 10 categories, say, by consolidating toolchests --- by consolidating their '.chestdef' files. |
AM-4b. Slanted fonts like this do not look very good with Tcl-Tk 8.4, because they are not anti-aliased. (In fact, I blurred this image so that it does not look so bad.) However, if you use Tcl-Tk 8.5, slanted fonts like this can look as nice as 'erect' fonts. |
AM-5. |
AM-6. If you don't specify an icon file for a drawer, the toolchests default to using a 'default.gif' file --- which is a 'bullet' type of icon --- such as the icon seen on the left of each drawer in the image above. |
AM-7. In this case, we see the top-level feAppMenus toolchest, the AppCategories toolchest, and the FTP toolchest --- where we could startup the Filezilla app. These are not your typical 'cascading' toolchests. These are not connected to each other. When you let go of your mouse button, they do not disappear. This can be very helpful if you want to use more than one app in a particular category --- or if you want to reuse an app multiple times in a login session. You can close any toolchests you do not need by simply closing the window in the usual way --- click on the Close symbol ('X') at the top of the window. |
AM-8. For example, here I have dragged the 3 toolchests, that were seen in-full in the row above, to the bottom of the desktop, so that only the title bar of each of the toolchests is peeking above the bottom of the desktop. Alternatively, one could minimize each toolchest window in the usual way, and the toolchest short-titles would appear in the taskbar at the bottom of this desktop --- as they indeed appear in the taskbar in this screenshot --- the three 'tabs' on the the right of the taskbar. |
AM-9. You can use the 'EditChest' button of this toolchest, to edit its '.chestdef' file and remove (or comment out) drawers that you do not need --- and activate drawers for image/photo tools programs that you prefer to use. And you can move your favorites to the top of the toolchest. Note that you can have 'grayed out' drawers --- for example, to remind you of programs that you might want to install in the future. |
AM-10. |
AM-11. Again, you can use the 'EditChest' button of ANY toolchest, to edit its '.chestdef' file and remove (or comment out) drawers that you do not need --- and activate drawers for utility programs that you prefer to use. For non-GUI programs, you could write a little 'wrapper' script to start them in a terminal window, like 'xterm', and call that wrapper script, instead of the non-GUI executable. Edit the '.chestdef' file to add a call to the 'wrapper' script --- in a drawer of the toolchest. |
AM-12. |
AM-13. When you click on that button, the following window appears. |
AM-14. The 'ChgFont' and 'ChgColor' buttons only change the font/color for that one toolchest --- and only for that one instance of the toolchest. The change does not 'stick' for future openings of the toolchest. With the 'EditFonts' and 'EditColors' buttons, you can make the font/color changes 'permanent' and make them apply to ALL the feAppMenus toolchests. Furthermore, with the 'EditGeom' button, you can change geometry parameters, such as vertical and horizontal padding within 'button' widgets. And with the 'EditApps' button, you can set your preferred applications --- text editors, HTML-readers, PDF-readers, etc. |
'feHandyTools' subsystem images (HT):
HT-1a. The 'feHandyTools' are Tcl-Tk GUI utilities that use Tk-GUI's --- instead of 'zenity' as in 'feNautilusScripts' --- to provide prompting widgets --- AND, in many 'apps', to provide a Tk 'canvas' on which images can be displayed. There are twelve tool categories on this chest. And there is a 'MORE FE Handy Tools' drawer to provide access to about 15-plus more categories --- like the 'zMORE' menu item in the 'feNautilusScripts' subsystem. In addition, there is an 'feNautilusScripts' drawer that gives access to Tcl-Tk directory- navigator/file-selector GUI's that allow the user to access ALL the scripts of the 'feNautilusScripts' subsystem --- EVEN IF THE USER DOES NOT HAVE 'Nautilus' INSTALLED. Furthermore, there is an 'feAppMenus chest' drawer that gives access to the 'feAppMenus' subsystem from the main menu of the 'feHandyTools' subsystem. Of course, for these bottom two drawers to work the 'feNautilusScripts' and 'feAppMenus' subsystems need to be installed. Like the 'feAppMenus' system, if the user clicks on the '>>' button, 'EditChest' and 'EditVars' buttons are revealed. |
HT-1b. Just like in the 'feAppMenus' subsystem, described in an image section above, there is an 'EditChest' button on all the toolchests by which the user can add/change/delete drawers of the 'feHandyTools' toolchests. So, for example, if you did not have 'feAppMenus' and 'feNautilusScripts' installed, you could delete (or gray-out) those drawers on the main toolchest of 'feHandyTools'. ------ Note that many of the drawers of these 2 'main' and 'more' toolchests are grayed out because many categories were not populated with Tcl-Tk GUI utilities when these images were made. Since then, grayed-out drawers of the main toolchest have been activated --- in particular, some utilities have been put in the 'IMAGEtools' and 'VIDEOtools' categories. |
HT-2a. Its options (drawers) are similar to the menu items in the 'AUDIOtools' menu of the 'feNautilusScripts' subsystem. That 'AUDIOtools' menu can be seen in the 'feNautilusScripts' screenshot images section, above. |
HT-2b. |
HT-3a. |
HT-3b. |
HT-4a. |
HT-4b. |
HT-5. This is the GUI that is presented when the user clicks on the drawer labelled "Show 'man' help for a topic/pgm", in the 'Linux/Unix HELPS' toolchest shown a couple of rows above. |
HT-6. (This is just like in the 'feAppMenus' subsystem.) |
HT-7a. |
HT-7b. This GUI is the one that provides the capability to run ANY of the 'feNautilusScripts' against user-selected file(s) selected via this GUI. When the user clicks on the 'Apply-a-Script' button, a Script-Selector GUI appears. There are additional screenshots and much more description on a How to run Nautilus scripts via 'feHandyTools' page.
NOTE: There is a 'tkScriptApplicator' in 'tkGooies' that provides the capability to run the 'feNautilusScripts'. |
HT-8. This GUI is used in several of the MORE-category toolchests to present the user with various Linux configuration and log files that the user may wish to see. This GUI is also used heavily in the 'PROGRAMMING Tools' 'demo chests' that run and/or show Tcl-Tk code samples. (See images of the 'demo chests' below.) In the 'code demos' ... The user is given 3 options --- RUN or SHOW or RUN-and-SHOW Tcl-Tk code --- via another 'feHandyTools' Tcl-Tk GUI that is presented when the 'UseIt' button is clicked on this 'LineItem-Selector' GUI. (The code samples are shown with the FE 'xpg' utility.) |
HT-9. (This is out of date. At least eight plot utilities are offered in the 'tkGooies' system.) The image above shows the chest in expanded form, so that you can see the 'EditChest' and 'EditVar' buttons that are available on ALL the 'feHandyTools' chests. The FE 'PlotQuik' tools are one set of tools that are not presented in the 'feNautilusScripts' subsystem. The only GUI's used in the 'feNautilusScripts' subsystem are GUI's that are generated by the 'zenity' utility. These Tcl-Tk 'PlotQuik' tools are more elaborate GUI's --- capable of a lot of 'simultaneous' inputs. |
HT-10a. All the needed prompts are on a single window --- which includes the 'canvas' on which the plot is drawn. |
HT-10b. |
HT-11a. |
HT-11b. |
HT-12a. |
HT-12b. |
HT-13a. These are demo Tcl-Tk scripts that are delivered with the Tcl-Tk interpreter system. |
HT-13b. |
HT-14a. These drawers present scripts that have been adapted from demo scripts at the Tcl-Tk wiki --- at wiki.tcl.tk. |
HT-14b. Note that there are over 25 Tcl-Tk game demos that are shipped with the 'feHandyTools' subsystem. |
HT-15a. |
HT-15b. |
HT-16. |
HT-17a. |
HT-17b. In this GUI, a click on the 'Refresh' button generates a new set of 4 x 4 = 16 parameters for the four frame widgets of this GUI --- using a 'random generation' function of Tcl. |
HT-18a. This implementation is 'deterministic' rather than random. In this GUI, there are 4 x 4 = 16 Tk option-buttons that the user can specifically set. |
HT-18b. In this view, a different set of 16 'pack' parameters has been set. Then the 'Refresh' button was clicked, in order to apply those 16 parameters. Note that Tk GUI's can be made to be 'self-changing' or, more specifically, 'self-re-configuring'. |
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Stopping now. This page is getting loaded-down with images. I had better stop now. But there are many more images that it would be nice to show here --- images of Tk GUI's that I wrote for this 'feHandyTools' subsystem --- and images of Tk Demos, categorized into the 'Core', 'Wiki', and 'FE' groups. The 'Core' demos are installed in a system directory when the Tcl-Tk 'wish' interpreter is installed. The 'Wiki' demos come from the Tcl-Tk Wiki site. The 'FE' demos were written by me. Some of the demos not shown here might blow your mind --- such as the 3D Viewer demo (by Mark Stucky) in the '3D demos category of the Tcl-Tk 'Wiki' demos. It is hard to believe that a scripting language can quickly do 2D-rendering of the rotation of a 3D model with hundreds of surface facets (polygons) --- without using hardware-acceleration (GPU's in graphics cards). So try out some of the 'Wiki' Tcl-Tk demos --- especially Keith Vetter's plane-geometry theorem animations and gear-and-mechanism animations on a Tk 'canvas'. |
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