Hi Christian, On Sa, 25.07.2009 12:16, Christian Neumair wrote:
>The idea is to have a D-Bus API >[1] allowing to control Nautilus programmatically, including the opening >of new locations, refresh of existing ones etc.. That would be very useful, indeed. Also for requesting async file operations (copy, move etc) -- I really like the cumulative copy tray icon / dialog, and would like to relay large file operations to Nautilus even from outside applications. >All the windows and slots should basically be exposed to D-Bus, and some >of their properties (location, view ID, ...). If you want to control >Nautilus from a plugin, we'd additionally have to assign textual or >numerical IDs to the various slots, and add an API for getting that API >that can be passed to D-Bus from the plugin. I've announced work of a split-view mode in Nautilus browser windows some time ago. Work is pretty far grown (code is on http://github.com/hb/nautilus/tree/split-view and there's packages for Ubuntu Jaunty at https://launchpad.net/~berndth/+archive/ppa and Arch Linux at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26529) and I planned to submit the branch with a request for review soonish. The reason I am mentioning that here is that the branch introduces another layer between a window and a slot, called a "pane". A window may have one or several panes, and a pane may have one or several slots. Therefore, the window/slot hierarchie is a little modified. I don't know how far the D-Bus interface spec for Nautilus is grown, but it would be great if it was prepared (or easily extensible) in case a multi-pane feature got merged some day. Holger -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
