Re: scripting

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

on 3/11/01 9:00 AM, Jonas De Vuyst at jonas devuyst advalvas be wrote:

>> My question might be stupid, but what if this feature would
>> apear on the GUI. For exmaple : Imagine that your word
>> processor can't handle a format but you have a converter.
>> With the mouse you should redirect the "save as..." dialog's
>> output into the converter's input.
> 
> IIRC BeOS had a special API for converting file formats. I'm not sure
> but I vagely recall that there is being worked on that for Gnome... it
> could be my imagination though ;-). What I am (more or less ;) sure of
> is that someone is working getting "translators" into Nautilus.

For what it's worth, I am unaware of any such work in Nautilus. At least,
there's nothing like that there now, nobody at Eazel is working on it, and
I'm not even sure there's a request for it in bugzilla.eazel.com.

It does sound like a good idea.

> An API that all Gnome (and non-Gnome) apps could use would be sweet
> though :-).

That sounds like an even better idea.

> 
> Jonas.
> 
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