Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-02-07 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Benedikt Meurer wrote: >>Interface: org.xfce.FileManager >>=== Ok, the first implementation of org.xfce.FileManager is available now in SVN. Every method now takes a display argument, which can be "" to indicate that the default display of the file manager(!) should be

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-02-01 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Brian J. Tarricone wrote: >>>For applications that need to determine a file's mimetype and similar >>>stuff, it may be better to link to thunar-vfs, as you usually don't just >>>determine the mime type for fun, but you want to do something with it. ;-) > > Agreed, though sometimes I *do* just look

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-02-01 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Biju Chacko wrote: >>I'd like to discuss the D-Bus interface(s) for Thunar, in order to fix >>bug #1384 for the alpha2 release. My initial idea was to put everything >>in one interface, but that's not a very good idea. So, there'll be >>several interfaces implemented by Thunar. > > Looks good. Per

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-02-01 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Interface: org.xfce.FileManager > === > > This is the basic interface implemented by Xfce file managers (Thunar > and Xffm, and whatever other file managers). Other applications can > communicate with the active file manager using this interface

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-01-31 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: > I'd like to discuss the D-Bus interface(s) for Thunar, in order to fix > bug #1384 for the alpha2 release. My initial idea was to put everything > in one interface, but that's not a very good idea. So, there'll be > several interfaces implemented by Thunar. Looks good. Per

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-01-31 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/31/2006 3:21 PM, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Brian J. Tarricone wrote: >> Is there a need to expose more detailed functionality, like moving or >> copying files? I'm not sure why other apps would need to do this, but >> it might be useful if someone

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-01-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > Is there a need to expose more detailed functionality, like moving or > copying files? I'm not sure why other apps would need to do this, but > it might be useful if someone can think of a use case. Yeah, I thought about TransferFilesInto() already, but I dunno how har

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-01-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erik Harrison wrote: > I'd like to push this little API into one of the Xfce libraries. > Should it go in libgui? It should probably provide a nice fallback in > the absense of a registered file manager if possible, and possibly > also use the Xfce Prefered Apps framework so that Launch can open >

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-01-31 Thread Erik Harrison
On 1/31/06, Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to discuss the D-Bus interface(s) for Thunar, in order to fix > bug #1384 for the alpha2 release. My initial idea was to put everything > in one interface, but that's not a very good idea. So, there'll be > several interfaces impleme

Re: [Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-01-31 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/31/2006 2:27 PM, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > I'd like to discuss the D-Bus interface(s) for Thunar, in order to fix > bug #1384 for the alpha2 release. My initial idea was to put everything > in one interface, but that's not a very good idea. So, the

[Thunar-dev] D-Bus interface

2006-01-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
I'd like to discuss the D-Bus interface(s) for Thunar, in order to fix bug #1384 for the alpha2 release. My initial idea was to put everything in one interface, but that's not a very good idea. So, there'll be several interfaces implemented by Thunar. Interface: org.xfce.FileManager =