WIDEshell is in beta design. It uses html links to launch bash and yad scripts, gui applications and browser pages and can lauch them all at one time or timed with bash sleep delay. If you can do it with a desktop icon or a shell script, it can now be done using a html link in a html webpage. (Think of all the possibilities !!!). Bash Command Pages that are Web 2.0 too ! How cool is that ?
Since I am not a programmer and all I know aout coding is self taught, it will be slow development. What we are doing to start with though, is to source server side code to a main script file. The main action is done by a child dialog that the user opens after the main script has finished displaying a welcome htlm dialog window. When a user clicks a link in the child dialog, or if they click an icon or image that is linked by <a link or <a href or a desktop icon.desktop that is linked to a script, the stdout from the child process is captured and assigned to variables. Then the varialbles are written to files and then read back in to parent script where it is formated with sed, grep and using if test statements to reach the accpetable format based on link type. The correctly formated command or hyper-link ether launches a bash script or application of is fed back to the parent termial just as a command and executed.
But, we are not limited to this Parent Child relationship, this design can also launch new terminal windows; new yad windows; any application. Still testing what it can do and I am sure the code will change dramatically over the next few months as I coded this all in one weekend.
Requried progams are yad GUI 10+ (slightly modified); gnome-terminal and in this first testing example, penguins-eggs console Linux Remastering program. Only being tested on Debian pure Distros like Linux Mint DE 6; Q4OS, Sparkylinux. Someone else can do the Ubuntu flavors.
I tired to accomplish this 6 years ago but, had too much going on in my life moving, changing jobs ad it was much before I found yad GUI which has provided me with the tools I needed.