On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 08:36 -0600, Merrell wrote: > I'm thinking about porting Nautilus to Windows as a possible > alternative to Explorer. I know this will be quite a task, but that's > how much I love Nautilus. I already know about the cygwin port, but it > is still integrated into Gnome and is a bit awkward to use. I'm still > a novice coder, doing most of my work in AutoIt, so if anyone would > like to help, it would be much appreciated.
Hi, nautilus' code itself *should* not be extremely hard to port, as most of the underlying stack (GLib/GIO/GTK+) is already cross-platform (though I don't know to what degree GTK+ 3.0 works under Windows yet after all the recent GDK changes that got merged), and we don't use X directly, except for a few things like the desktop background, which could be removed in the port. GVfs backends for transparent network (SSH/SMB/FTP/...) support are an entirely different story, as they might heavily depend on platform-specific code. Patches that might improve the portability of nautilus are welcome anyway, feel free to jump in #nautilus on irc.gnome.org if you have more specific question. Cosimo -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list