RE: Regarding Nautilus scripts

["Mason Kidd" <Mason Kidd bea com>]

But I think that this functionality pretty much already exists.  You
drop the .server file in a special directory (/lib/bonobo/servers
usually), and Bonobo registers the component. It doesn't matter where
you put the .so file, because the .server file tells Bonobo where the
.so file is.  So how is this more difficult than MacOS or BeOS?

It seems to me that your only real complaint is the cluttering up of the
top level Nautilus menu.  This could be easily alleviated by creating a
submenu (Extensions or whatever), and have components' menus be placed
in there (like your mock-up).

As an aside, in about an hours worth of work, I created a Bonobo
component to do the Open Terminal Here... functionality.  I've gotten
all the code written, just finishing up the compiling and installing.
And I've never done any programming "of Nautilus internals" or anything
like that.  So it's actually very easy to create "Nautilus addons".
Anyone that knows C and XML can do it just by looking at some example
code (I looked at the file-roller component source).

Mason Kidd, CCNA
IT Customer Support Engineer II
BEA Systems, Inc.
Kirkland, WA
425-896-4194
Seattle, WA
206-926-2957
Cell 206-295-7687



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugenia Loli-Queru [mailto:eloli hotmail com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:18 PM
> To: nautilus-list gnome org; desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Regarding Nautilus scripts
> 
> 
> > On a related note about .server files, and I think this is 
> sort of where
> > Eugenia is trying to go is, while the .server file needs to be in a
> > spacific directory, a .so plugin does not need to be in a spacific
> > location. So there is two parts to a plugin. A .server file 
> and a .so
> > file. One of the things that was very nice about MacOS < X 
> (and maybe X, I
> > havent used X) was that you could put an extention in (one file) a
> > special directory and it was registered. And when you were done with
> > it, you just removed it from the directory. Maybe an 
> extention library
> > could be added to bonobo(-activation) so that a .server 
> file could be
> > described in a .so file (Maybe as a function??) and have a 
> program that
> > pulls out the .server and registers it with 
> bonobo-activation. (hmm...
> > this sounds familior. Doesnt activex do something like 
> this...). Then
> > have nautilus have a special directory for plugins such that, if you
> > place a .so file in that directory, it automatically 
> registeres the plugin
> > and when you remove it, it unregisteres it. This would add 
> functionality
> > similar to what MacOS has. Also, since its not nautilus spacific, it
> > would also be an easy way to install plugins for other 
> bonobo-activation
> > programs. (Maybe gedit?)
> 
> That's exactly what I was talking about, regarding the 
> location. MacOS is
> not the only OS that does that, BeOS does that too with 
> Tracker's addon. You
> pop their .so files to the correct location as defined by 
> pkgconfig (if you
> want to install them manually that is) and voila, the addon 
> is there! No
> .server files or .so files all over the place. Just a simple .so or
> executable, these applets are small apps anyway and when they 
> are not, let
> the .so file to call the big app (e.g file roller). On BeOS, 
> you don't even
> have to restart the file manager for Tracker to find the 
> newly placed addon,
> the live queries system will tell Tracker that a new addon was placed,
> automatically.
> 
> Underlying OS + integration is your friend.
> 
> Eugenia
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