That came to my mind as well. But I am not sure if the python extension interface allows that. Maybe some Nautilus gurus can help me out here! But yeah, I shall try the new process paradigm and post my findings here. Thanks for your prompt reply.
regards, Seemanta On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Stian Skjelstad <st...@nixia.no> wrote: > Does the python interface allow threads? If so, spawn a worker thread. If > no, spawn a new process that does the actual job. This way, you can return > control back to nautilus faster, avoiding the “hick-up” as you do heavy IO > work. > > > > Stian Skjelstad > > > > *Fra:* nautilus-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto: > nautilus-list-boun...@gnome.org] *På vegne av* Seemanta Dutta > *Sendt:* 28. april 2010 15:18 > *Til:* nautilus-list@gnome.org > *Emne:* A nautilus script to enqueue folders and files to rhythmbox > > > > Hi Nautilus hackers/users, > > First of all hats off to all Nautilus hackers. This is such a fine piece of > software. I have been using Linux for more than 10 years now and more > particularly Gnome where I find Nautilus extremely well integrated. You guys > have done a damn fine job of creating/maintaining Nautilus ! > > I recently wrote a small python plugin to enqueue files or folders > recursively into the rhythmbox play queue. Please find it here: > http://seemanta.net/myblog/?p=634. I am not sure if this is the right > place to post this. If there is a dedicated mailing list for python > extensions for Nautilus, please let me know. > > I am however, facing one issue in my script and need your inputs regarding > it. Whenever a big folder with several levels of sub-folders and files is > selected, there is a high latency in Nautilus during which it seems to > become unresponsive. This is because my plugin is creating a list of files > that need to be enqueued and this is done recursively. Is there a way to > overcome this? I agree, that for huge folders, if I right click the delay > might be acceptable. But I think if I simply select a folder, the python > plugin should not get invoked. > > Any ideas how to make my script run only in case of a right-click and not > on normal left click selects ? > > regards, > Seemanta >
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