Hi all,
We are a group of students planning to write a mass copying and
organizing tool for GNOME.
Necessity : Suppose we want to organize our hard-disk by grouping files or
folders spread throughout the hard disk into a single location..say a
folder or a drive ,currently we have to copy or cut each and every file and
paste it into desired location everytime we do such an operation which is
time consuming and not desirable many a times... Idea of our software
project is to keep track of all the files and folders to be copied and
perform a single copy or cut operation to achieve the desired outcome.
Description: The idea is to write a program that adds an entry into Nautilus
right click menu(lets name the entry as container) This container entry will
again have a submenu. There will be four options in the submenu namely Add
to Container, Copy-Paste the Container(Contents), Cut-Paste the
Container(Contents) and Delete the Container. Whenever the user right clicks
on a file the submenu will have only the Add to Container option Enabled, So
he can add that file to the container. Whenever the user right clicks a
directory - Add to Container, Copy-Paste the Container, Cut-Paste the
Container options will be enabled. So one can Add the directory itself to
the container or Copy or Move the contents of the previous Container to
this directory. Whenever someone right clicks elsewhere then the Delete
Container option will be enabled. Since in the first stage we are planning
to implement only a single container, a person may want to create a new
container and discard the old container. So this Delete Container Option
will be provided. However when someone performs Copy-Paste or Cut-Paste the
container automatically gets deleted.
As of now this is the plan to be implemented in stage 1. In the later
stages or versions we would like to Add other features as the community
requests. Also we would love to add a GUI to better support the container
operations and multiple containers handling facilities. These type of tools
are already available on Windows platform and we would love to give it to
GNOME and hence to Open Source Community too since many of them feel such
tools are required for better organization and management of their large
hard disks.
We request the GNOME Community to Review this idea, and give its
invaluable Suggestions, so we can make this idea a reality on GNOME too.
Also we request the GNOME Community to support this project.
- Thanks and Regards
Madhusudan.C.S
"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is
relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered"
- Dorothy Thompson
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