Add minimal code to get it to work in the browser (chromium)

[Floby]

Hello,
I wanted to try TermKit but I don't own any Mac (and probably never will) and run an Ubuntu instead =) so I modified some bits in your code to get it to work in Chromium which is based on webkit.
I have not looked closely at the icons not displaying but I reckon I can find a way to serve them through HTTP as well.

I'm sure you've considered these things before so I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't pull my request. But you never know, maybe I can help. This is a cool project.

[benjamine]

That would be great, maybe this deserves a separate project, it would be great TermKit could be used as a remote client

[franzliedke]

SSH-in-the-browser-like?

[benjamine]

Exactly!, I know TermKit is not intended to be that, but maybe TermKit could be used to build something like that...

[Floby]

the HTTP based user interface is very common pattern for node.js apps because no bindings to native GUIs are available yet (or not seriously usable). However given the latency I get when running it on localhost, I cannot begin to imagine how frustrating it would be to use it remotely. This patch is mainly intended to be able to run TermKit on other OS's than MacOS X (in my case, Ubuntu).
I know there is chromeless by Mozilla which is fun to play with for native-ish webapps but I don't believe there is such a thing with a webkit based browser.

Besides, I pulled from the repository today and I have trouble running a simple ls in my ~/ I'm looking into this and eventually will update the pull request.

[Floby]

@hemna glad it worked. I forgot to ask for your node version, I assumed it was the latest, sorry. (by the way, last stable release is 0.4.7)
I added some npm sugar to my pull request so that the socket.io submodule is not needed anymore.

I should consider doing a serious fork of this, unconed seems to be ignoring my pull request :/

[dhasenan]

I'm not getting icons with this. This makes me sad :(

Great concept, and I'm glad to see it mostly working on Linux.

[Floby]

@dhasenan I know, it's because icons use inline CSS and webkit-specific URIs. I have not worked out a solution for this at the moment.

[ghost]

Is there any opportunity to use Curl or Wget instead of Get? Ubuntu and other Linux Distributions usually don't have get. Ubuntu uses Wget as Standard.

[jrudolph]

This works already pretty good. What to do if TermKit loses keyboard focus? I can't get it to accept any keystrokes after I switched away from the browser tab in which it runs. Ubuntu 10.10, Chrome 11

[ghost]

Is this a bug, that chromium 13 output each time the content-type from not built in Applications? Content-Type: application/octet-stream

[ghost]

So, I wrote a little Programm launcher for TermKit http://www.heypasteit.com/clip/YBB. you can change the chromium-browser by replacing it with chrome. I hope you enjoy it.

[Floby]

Cool, I never had much interest for this Gnome stuff, glad to see someone knows it better.
the line

cd "path to termkit"/Node && node nodekit.js & chromium-browser "path to termkit"/HTML/index.html

should read

cd "path to termkit"/Node && node nodekit.js & chromium-browser http://localhost:2222/

the rest seems ok to me, but again I'm no expert at this.

[ghost]

@Floby: both should work:
http://forum.golem.de/kommentare/software-entwicklung/termkit-neue-generation-von-unix-werkzeugen/soeben-unter-linux-mit-google-chrome-getestet-meinung/51757,2708256,2708256,read.html .. but thanks for this, to give chromium a "web" path is much better then using html files. But be careful:
Name[de_DE]=TermKit
GenericName[de_DE]=TermKit should to be changed to your language.

[Floby]

No, both don't work. When you navigate to a local html file (using file:// as protocol in chrome) WebSockets don't work. I was ready to believe otherwise, but doing so logs an error Invalid url for WebSocket ws:///socket.io/websocket which makes total sense.

[ghost]

Why it Works for me?
21 May 18:24:02 - Initializing client with transport "websocket"
21 May 18:24:02 - Client 7772779429797083 connected
worker: config @{}@

-- http://localhost:2222/ don't works for me

[Floby]

@check probably because I committed further changes on my master branch so that socket.IO doesn't have it's localhost:2222 target hardcoded (allowing for remote use). But when you load the index.html as a file, it can't find where it should connect.

@Shifty0x88 You should try and send me pull request =) this isn't very hard and I promise you'll have fun :D see github help

[ghost]

@Shifty0x88 not the best way to do this, with this way you've alwas have the same icon.
I think i will use php to choose a icon for each filetype..
defaultUrl = 'http://localhost/extensions.php?extension=' + extension ;
.. the problem is, i don't know how to get the mime type, that would make my work much easier.
@Floby: thx

[Floby]

this is what the mime module is used for. You can use it from node.js

On 21 May 2011 21:58, check <
[email protected]>wrote:

@Shifty0x88 not the best way to do this, with this way you've alwas the
same icon.
I think i will use php to choose a icon for each filetype..
defaultUrl = 'http://localhost/extensions.php?extension=' +
extension ;
.. the problem is, i don't know how to get the mine type, that would make
my work much easier.

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[ghost]

@Floby: do you know why this happens?
http://r46.img-up.net/?up=TermKithj0l1.png

[Shifty0x88]

Oh that, no I haven't figured that out yet. Nice I'm glad to see you got the
icons working. I think it might have to do with the css or possible the
outputview classes and how it splits up the outputviewnodes? (Whatever the
actual name+size+icon)

On May 21, 2011 6:49 PM, "check" <
[email protected]>
wrote:

@Floby: do you know why this happens?
http://r46.img-up.net/?up=TermKithj0l1.png

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[ghost]

@Shifty0x88: actully icons not work as good as possible. I made a php skript, but i think it gonna work better. The php skript use the icons of Faenza. http://paste.bradleygill.com/index.php?paste_id=289746 .. but i still working on this.
Thx!

[Shifty0x88]

Hey its better then no icons or what I had done just a file icon. Still had
to figure out how to check the type and if it was a folder or not etc

On May 21, 2011 7:16 PM, "check" <
[email protected]>
wrote:

@Shifty0x88: actully icons not work as good as possible. I made a php
skript, but i think it gonna work better. The php skript use the icons of
Faenza. http://paste.bradleygill.com/index.php?paste_id=289746 .. but i
still working on this.

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[ghost]

update: http://paste.bradleygill.com/index.php?paste_id=289749

[Shifty0x88]

Nice although its a shame we had to add the extra icons to it, and not use
his existing images. I think when the extension is "..." it means the file
stat mode & 0x4000 is true.

On May 21, 2011 7:57 PM, "check" <
[email protected]>
wrote:

update: http://paste.bradleygill.com/index.php?paste_id=289749

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[kuno]

I just started a linux client for TermKit, using gnome seed flamework, which is a javascript binding to libwebkit.
This make it perfect to demonstrate how javascript can do with next generation web technology on the desktop experience.

I have not any previous experience with gtk, so , may someone can help me make it better?
If you are interesting, check it out:
https://github.com/kuno/TermSeed

[jonashaag]

You're a Java/C++ programmer, right? Please don't write Java in Javascript. Don't do getters and setters -- they're just about the most stupid things in programming I've ever seen.

[unconed]

FYI, the icons being chopped up across columns is a WebKit issue. They don't allow you to control column breaking inside elements yet.

[sneilan]

Oy. And I used the recursive option too. This is on ubuntu 11.10 with
$ node -v
v0.7.1-pre

and
[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm

sneilan@sneilan-ubuntu:~/build/TermKitProj/TermKit$ node Node/nodekit.js
node.js:218
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
Error: require.paths is removed. Use node_modules folders, or the NODE_PATH environment variable instead.
at Function. (module.js:378:11)
at Object. (/home/sneilan/build/TermKitProj/TermKit/Node/nodekit.js:5:8)
at Module._compile (module.js:434:26)
at Object..js (module.js:452:10)
at Module.load (module.js:353:32)
at Function._load (module.js:310:12)
at Array.0 (module.js:472:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:209:41)

[Shifty0x88]

Which version of Node are you using?

From the error message it looks like require.paths() is no longer valid.

Seems like they removed the require.paths() function. Check out http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.3/api/all.html#loading_from_the_require.paths_Folders for some tips to fix the issue.

I have all but given up on the project from the amount of JS code, and how I hate JS programming as it is not very static and everyone seems to have a different style.

Was thinking about making a C clone of this, but I gave up. Check out Floby's (which I based my off of) or go back to the parent fork of Unconed for more information.

Oh and a little google on: "Error: require.paths is removed. Use node_modules folders, or the NODE_PATH environment variable instead." will give you a bunch of hits from other GitHub projects that are using Node.js

Sorry I am not much help... but good luck.

-- Rob (Shifty0x88)