Re: State of nautilus-sendto for 3.8

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> nautilus-sendto has been in a quite broken state for some time now, with
> many of the plugins not working correctly if at all.
> In the long term, I think we should have the concept of a generic DBus
> "sharing service" API applications can use, but a more short-term solution
> is to just strip down nautilus-sendto so that its arguably most important
> feature (sending files by email) is nicely integrated and works correctly
> (tracked in bug [1]).
>
> This was on our roadmap for 3.6, but it was too late in the cycle back then
> to make this change. Six months later we're essentially at the same point,
> and I think it makes sense now to push for this change to be included in the
> release.
>
> Patches are on the bug report, feedback and comments appreciated.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680983

I'm in favour of taking this; we shouldn't let breakage like this
persist through multiple releases.