Re: [gedit-list] Filebrowser Pane Plugin - in development

[Kevin Kubasik <kevin kubasik net>]

Hey, any word on when this code is going to be publicly available?

Cheers,
Kevin Kubasik

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 13:39 -0800, David Jonas wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> First, thanks for the quality product. The new mdi is working out just
> fine for me. I have been using it for quite awhile.
> 
> I'm working on a filebrowser pane plugin for gedit. This is my first
> real Gtk project and my first real gnome contribution. I'm pretty far
> along on it, and I thought I would let the list know. Just so you know
> I'm serious, here's a screenshot:
> 
> http://www.splitretina.com/gedit-plugins/
> 
> My basic idea is to build a filebrowser pane widget then just connect
> that widget to gedit with the plugin api. This way I can do my
> development in a simple test app and drop it into the gedit framework
> later. At one point I had it going in gedit with the plugin patch
> provided with ctags, but I haven't touched that in awhile.
> 
> I'm currently formatting the code for public consumption, it should be
> ready soon. I'd like some good feedback, as critical as possible since I
> want to learn to do this right from the beginning. Any pointers now
> would be appreciated. 
> 
> I do have a lot of questions too that I'm not sure where to have
> answered. For example, I'm looking into integrating the "Places" menu
> item just like it is in Nautilus, with the bookmarks, but I don't even
> know where to begin. Getting the icons for the mimetypes gave me
> headache, I ended up using the Galeon code as an example to work from.
> I'm still not 100% sure I'm doing it right. 
> 
> Also, I'd be more than happy to write documentation on the plugin API
> and a tutorial if someone else can provide me with the info (and correct
> me when I'm wrong). Unfortunately, I don't know anything about python,
> so I won't be much help there (although I should probably learn).
> 
> Anyway, this was just a heads-up and a hello, with more to follow.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
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