Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus Feature Idea

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 9/12/00 6:29 PM, Ryan Muldoon at rpmuldoon students wisc edu wrote:

> I had an idea today for a nice addition to Nautilus - basically, I want to
> see increased application integration through bonobo and gnome-vfs.  My
> idea is to add a "global search" fallback to searching with
> medusa/nautilus. 

Good idea.

> I also have a question about how other applications are going to be able to
> interact with nautilus - one of the nice things that Explorer lets you do
> is let other apps add in shell extensions into the right-click menu.  There
> are 2 that I find useful - the "mail this file to someone" and the "ICQ
> file-transfer this to someone"......will Evolution and GnomeICU be able to
> add this type of thing (trivially)?  Or will you just rely on drag and drop
> to accomplish the same tasks? Drag and drop is definitely nice, but across
> multiple virtual desktops and viewports, it can be a hassle.  Also, you may
> not have evolution or whatever open yet.

This is one of our most-requested features, and we'll no-doubt get to it
after Nautilus 1.0 is finished.

    -- Darin