Comment 2 for bug 365368

Separate tab makes sense.

The easy way might be drag and drop canned actions into the order you want
them to run. The canned actions would have GUI modifiable parameters. One
canned action would be calling a shell script.

The hard way might be to use GTK introspection to expose program and editor
functions, and perhaps plugin methods. Then use python or javascript or
whatever as a scripting language.

I'm still quite a newbie to the Linux world; I would think there must (or
should) be an GUI automation interface and framework for programs to easily
add on friendly yet powerful automation without having to re-invent the
wheel.

Likely method one is the best approach - a quick way to build basic scripts
that can be expanded as new ideas come up - and then over time as use cases
expand, re-write with a more powerful framework.