gst-launch tab-completion!

[Stirling Westrup]

This is great, but I should point out that under Debian, I have 3
versions of gst-launch and gst-inspect, because I have both v 0.10 and
v1.0 installed.

gst-launch and gst-inspect are symlinked to gst-launch-0.1 and
gst-inspect-0.1, and I also have gst-launch-1.0 and gst-inspect-1.0.
This is necessary if one is trying to make a backward compatible
gstreamer app.  It would be nice if your completions could handle
this.


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:54 PM, David Röthlisberger <david at rothlis.net> wrote:
> Dear GStreamer devs & users, I have an early Christmas present for you:
> A bash tab-completion script for gst-inspect and gst-launch.
>
> It will complete element names, property names, and (some) property
> values as appropriate; it will also complete options like
> "--gst-debug-level" and some of those options' values.
>
> This should make gst-launch much more discoverable for new users; hit
> <TAB> and you'll see options like "--gst-debug", which might cut down on
> a few posts to the mailing list. :-)
>
> This requires bash 4, and the bash-completion package (which you install
> with your system's package manager).
>
> I've raised a ticket to (hopefully) get this upstream:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690515
>
> But in the meantime, you can install it by copying
>   https://raw.github.com/drothlis/gstreamer/bash-completion-master/tools/gstreamer-completion
>   (for GStreamer 1.0)
> or
>   https://raw.github.com/drothlis/gstreamer/bash-completion-0.10/tools/gstreamer-completion
>   (for GStreamer 0.10)
> to /etc/bash_completion.d/
> and open a new terminal session (or: source
> /etc/bash_completion.d/gstreamer-completion).
>
> I will be happy to receive any feedback.
>
> I have some questions for the GStreamer devs:
>
> 1. I don't complete all possible caps specifications, like
> video/abc,width=xyz,etc.
> How can I (programmatically) determine the allowed caps?
> I can pull them out with some sed/awk trickery from gst-inspect, but
> should I do gst-inspect on the _previous_ element in the pipeline? Or
> only caps common to the immediately previous _and_ following elements in
> the pipeline? What to do about elements that report caps "ANY"?
>
> 2. I complete property values with "enum" and "boolean" types. Are there
> any other property types I could handle programmatically? Currently I
> default to filename completion if no other completions are generated,
> but I suppose I should limit that to properties with names like
> "location". I suppose I should also provide caps completion like (1)
> above to properties named "caps".
>
> 3. How to determine possible completions for "--exclude"? Are these
> "status information types" the same as the "category names" given by
> "--gst-debug-help"?
>
> 4. How to determine possible completions for "--gst-plugin-load":
> Is this supposed to take filenames of shared objects? Directories?
>
> 5. In addition to the above, I am aware that I need to provide
> completions for "--gst-debug" (I can use "--gst-debug-help" to get a
> list of category names) and for element names previously given on the
> gst-launch command line with "name=xyz".
> Is there anything else that completion could offer?
>
> 6. There are some unit tests in tests/misc/test-gstreamer-completion.sh.
> Should these be run automatically by "make check"? Would anyone like to
> volunteer to do that? :-)
>
> 7. Is anybody on this list responsible for the GStreamer packages on a
> major distro/OS? Or do you know someone who is? Please get in touch --
> I'd like to get the packages installing the bash-completion script
> automatically.
>
> Thanks!
> Dave.
>
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