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[Christian Rupp <christian@xxxxxxxx>]

Am 17.10.2011 15:09, schrieb frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx:
> i'd like to type (and one day speak) natural language to achieve 
> simple things, such as adding an appointment to my calendar or showing 
> all pictures i copied, viewed, created or edited last tuesday..
>
> for this to be possible, the dash would have to start making a 
> difference between precise statements (known) and fuzzy expressions 
> (guessed).
> A precise statement aka a known e.g. would be "rm -R 
> /home/fred/oldphotos" or "update-manger -d" or something of the kind, 
> while a fuzzy statement would be any input that doesn't match the 
> known reference tables.
>
> this way it is possible to employ natural instructions as a user, such 
> as "add an appointment at 7am tomorrow" or "schedule a task for 5pm" 
> or "wake up at 6am".
>
> wouldn't that be something?
> this would also solve the problem of whether or not to interpret 
> regular shell commands in the dash, there would simply be knowns and 
> guesses, end of story.
>
>
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The idea that you can give natural instruction sounds great (hard to 
achieve?) and I really would like to have something like that... control 
over voice (even harder?)

But I still don't like the idea behind, melting dash and Commands. I 
think keep on using [alt]+[f2] is a better choice. Anything else would 
confuse the "normal" user.
Let's hope for 12.04 that an calender is included and that Thunderbird 
looks better, also I'd would like to see "online accounts" working.