@kramo
Sounds like a nice idea.
Is there a repository to follow your work?

@kramo any kind of automation tool that isn't "just write a bash script lol" is so overdue it's unbelievable.

@kramo nice! I already wonder what file format would it use, how to save & restore workflows, and whether it would be possible to export them as bash or other shell scripts.

@kramo can it do bash scripts?

@kramo@fosstodon.org

Having worked with Apple's Shortcuts on a couple of projects, I personally found it frustrating to use. Rather than making a chain of tools you end up making a series of procedural subroutines using opaque calls to libraries, it really reminded me of Apple Script forcing an idiom beyond the point of usefulness.
It gives very limited access to UI elements, which, you mistakenly, would think would be its strength.

@kramo awesome! have you read this article on the topic?

https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/

@kramo ok that's is awesome. I hope there's a way to export them so I can but them on git so I can share them across machines

@kramo@fosstodon.org Excited to see how it turns out

@kramo this has such potential with integrating with dbus

@kramo

Would this effectively be a dbus GUI and automation tool?

If so, that'd be great.

@kramo Ruh roh, looks like we had overlapping ideas

Here's my idea how to make this very very powerful, please feel free to implement: https://gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-ideas/-/issues/247. I haven't gotten very far and have been busy with STF work recently

I'll be publishing the source code here: https://github.com/kra-mo/actions

@kramo I want to contribute to the app, do you have a roadmap or something to pick a couple of tasks ?

@kramo very nice!

@kramo@fosstodon.org lovely!

@kramo hype !!

@kramo There are already dozens of self hosted scripting agent tools like n8n, node-read, huggin etc. They already come with built-in integrations and are very simple to setup.

Not to discourage your work but maybe you can take some inspiration from these and target a market that they don't cover yet 👍

@kramo
I need something like this! Programming for non-IT people is not very well covered outside niche areas.

@kramo we really need to expose more functionality of the systems and apps.

@kramo Let's gooooo

@kramo I wish Shortcuts would let us write actual scripts.
Not that I mind having the GUI available for beginners.