Ideas with recursive filesystem browsing pipe menu?

[dircha]

Hello list,

Can anyone think of something interesting we could do with a recursive 
filesystem browsing pipe menu?

I just threw the together the attached script one evening as a proof of 
concept of this.

Directories become sub-pipe menus Symlinks and files are static entries 
just now.

One idea I had was to make files into submenus as well with an "edit" 
and "see" link and then use some environment mime information to launch 
the appropriate application for that file.

Symlinks should probably just be resolved into their respective files 
and directories.

An application independent recently used files list might be useful as 
well. Filter for certain useful document types and watch with dnotify. 
Or maybe just run the appropriate ls and sort per invocation on user 
specified directories.

I run a fairly bare X environment: no GNOME or KDE environment or 
applications, mostly xterms. So it seemed to me that something along 
these lines might be useful.

Menu entry:
<menu id="mime_browse_menu" label="mime_browse" execute="browse ~" />

~/bin/browse perl script is attached as "browse".

dircha
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