nautilus hacking (question)

["Daniel Godas Lopez" <siro eurielec etsit upm es>]

hi, i was just playing with nautilus' source and wanted to add some eye
candy to it but then a problem appeared :o

id like to add some effects to the icons but when i looked inside the
code i found that those icons are handled using the eel library so i
would have to hack in that library and if the maintainers liked my patch
then id have to tell the nautilus guys to recompile it against the
patched library changing the appropriate function names or send them
another patch. It sounds a bit tricky just to add a little effect.

What should i do? do i send the two patches? do i send one to each
maintainer (1 to nautilus 1 to eel)? do i send both to nautilus maintainers? 

have a nice day :)