Re: [gedit-list] Gedit External Tools and Filebrowser

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jesse icecrew nl>]

At the moment, this is not possible out of the box. However, the file  
browser plugin is accessible from other plugins for some time now  
using the gedit message bus. This means that in principle, the  
external tools plugin can get this kind of information from the file  
browser plugin.

I can think of two possible solutions right now:

1) Add some extra environment variables like  
GEDIT_FILE_BROWSER_CURRENT_DIR which you could use in external tools

2) Implement 'internal tools' in external tools. These tools would run  
in the gedit process, using python, giving it full access to gedit  
internals, and thus the message bus. Basicly, you would write kind of  
mini plugins.

Both solutions require work on the external tools plugin, so no  
immediate fixes. Solution 1 would be the simplest to implement, and if  
you're interested you could try doing this yourself.


Jesse

On Nov 23, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Steve Frécinaux wrote:

> Hello Donato,
>
> This kind of questions is best asked on gedit-list.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> donato rotunno wrote:
> > Hi steve,
> > I'm getting in touch with you since I have a question for you as the
> > author of the plugin..
> > I'd like to use External Tools in conjunction with Filebrowser plugin
> > so I can issue actions (defined as External Tools) related to items  
> > in
> > the Filebrowser.
> > An example is SVN commands on the currently selected directory in  
> > Filebrowser.
> > Is this actually possible?If not, how can this be accomplished?
> > Thanks in advance, donato rotunno (aka ralf57)
>
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