On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:30 +0100, Holger Berndt wrote: > On Di, 03.03.2009 10:15, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > [problems of plugins/extensions] > > >I don't exactly have a "conclusion" as such. > [...] > > I'm just ranting a bit, > >because a lot of people seem to think that "plugins" is the final > >solution to a lot of problems, when its IMHO a problem in itself. > > Another feature that might make the development of split-view-based > extensions superfluous is to make Nautilus' scripts system split-view > aware. Similar to the environment variables that get set to selections > of the active slot, we could have environment variables of the > selections of the inactive pane. This would immediately allow things > like directory comparison be done via actions, with zero effect on UI > or older scripts.
We also want to have a dbus interface to nautilus so that you can query for open windows, what the selection is, etc, etc. This could be used for this too. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list