Feature Request: drop-down feature for Terminal

Hey Robert, Did you know you can run commands from the applications menu search box? It's assigned to the shortcut super + space and it can be assigned to a hot corner.

Is there any functionality you're looking for that this doesn't provide already?

Hey Daniel,

> Is there any functionality you're looking for that this doesn't provide already?

Thanks for your suggestion. I am aware of the search functionality of the applications menu.

However, this only makes accessible binaries with a desktop entry and thus not any custom shell aliases. Neither does that support the quick-launch of CLI applications.

To accomplish my wish, I am currently using the drop-down feature of Xfce terminal. Yet I would prefer to just use the Pantheon Terminal.

A concrete use case:

I assigned 'xfce-terminal --dropdown' as a custom command to a hot corner which allows me to quickly run a shell script for Google Translate. See the attached screenshot as an example.

Do you find this workflow useful?

I want to add as "missing functionalities":
You don't get return values, messages, CLI gui, ...
You can't just redo the last commands. Typical workflow when compiling changes over and over again.
You can't search old commands with ctr + r, use aliase, ...
You don't get all the great stuff from pantheon-terminal (Notifications!)
...

I will make a branch with this feature tomorrow

I implemented the feature.
I took the guake approach because it reflects my workflow :)
So you can start a hidden terminal with --drop-down command flag.
When pressing a hotkey it shows and hides the terminal just like guake.

The xfce approach which is afaik launch a terminal in drop down mode and close it when focus lost would also be possible.

I implemented it with very little influence on the original code base. So basically I only changed some method visibilities of the original code. The only "dirty" thing is the system wide hotkey which afaik needs some legacy X11 magic.
Is there a other way? Gnome has a ShellKeyGrabber over DBus. Maybe this would also be good for elemenary?!

If it has a chance to be merge I obv. also implement some config stuff whatever should be configable. I think minimal the hotkey and the window height.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28321853/pantheon-terminal-drop-down.webm

Hi Djax,

This looks very cool! Thanks for your work on this. I hope this will be merged. Then ideally, Shift + Meta + T would open the terminal in a dropdown mode.

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