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Open Terminal on Copy
We need an app developed/installed to the tea/cli to automatically open the terminal via the user’s web browser (tea www) when they click-to-copy the tea one-liner. The one-liner should be automatically pasted/entered into the terminal upon starting. Currently, the tea/cli asks users if they would like to install tea via a y/n question. If this could be bypassed, that would better ensure an install, but will defer to mxcl. Not giving devs an options may piss them off.
The imperative of this is two fold:
- we ensure more installs from marketing efforts/page visits
- we are able to confirm that a btn-click on www equates to an install (this will help Gypsy to determine which ad channels are performing best)
I don't think this is likely possible. The browser letting you run arbitrary unknown applications on link click would be a monstrous security hole. I also think it would be very alienating to users, but since I don't think this would work, that's a secondary concern.
I mean I wouldn't like it if my browser tried to open any local applications. But Zoom somehow does it.
Zoom registers a handler with the browser to receive zoom:// URLs. It might be possible to find a registered URL scheme that will just run our script, after prompting, but that would be so easily used to install malware that I'm skeptical.
we can do it, like zoom does it
needs an app. I don't think doing it via copy/paste makes sense tho.
For the installer? I could see registering a handler for tea commands in browsers we can find, but I don't think the installer can rely on that.
These requirements are not particularly clear TBH. @Xercesblu3 pls summarize in two sentences.
@mxcl does this help?
When using the click to copy button for the install script, we want an app that will open the terminal on the users computer and paste the code into the terminal automatically.
I disagree that clicking “copy” should do anything except copy.
A separate button to “open in terminal” makes sense though. I can’t tag Tom here for some reason, @Xercesblu3 please get Tom to check this thread out.
It's because he's an outside collaborator and only had access to 'www'. Adding him as a member now so he can have read access to more.
@mxcl @Xercesblu3 I can add an "open in terminal" button. I'll noodle that around today to figure out how best to lock it up with the current design.
Probs better for managing user expectations.
@mxcl @Xercesblu3 I opened a draft PR with the necessary UI changes for the 'open in terminal' button. That PR can be found here, and here's a Loom video showing the change:
https://www.loom.com/share/c0b7616789c14a8585f064d9324170b5
On Copy what? This is the repo for tea/cli, the fact it was for copying for the website requires a leap of faith and judgement to conclude without reading the body text.
Open Terminal to do what? Typically if you open a terminal you just get a prompt. This is not what was asked in the body text.
And as we discussed, we didn't want it for copy so at that point the title needed to be changed.