Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: rss feeds

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

I've forwarded your post to reef-list eazel com

bd

Ryan Muldoon wrote:

> Would this type of thing (eventually) be in the domain of Reef?  I don't
> mean to be annoying or anything, but it seems like it would be a more
> streamlined/integrated way of doing things.  (Really, I just want to
> play with nifty Reef SVBs...)  Grabbing things from websites is great,
> but there are a couple slight annoyances conceivable:
>
> 1. What happens if another browser clicks on these links?
> 2. If another application downloads them, does nautilus handle the local
> case too?
> 3. In case of 2, does the file go away, after Nautilus gets the needed
> information?
> 4. Going to a webpage to do local application configuration isn't as
> smooth as dynamically grabbing remote data from within a local
> configuration dialog.
>
> A web page with listings of everything would most definitely be useful,
> but maybe it should be seen as a companion to a reef service.  Down the
> road, it would kick ass if most of themes.org became reef-aware....it
> would be a lot more convenient.
>
> But, maybe I'm looking at too far down the line. ;-)  I hope that
> something of what I am writing is useful at some level....
>
>     --Ryan
>
> On 03 May 2001 14:48:30 -0700, Bart Decrem wrote:
> > So we now have 3 types of content that people should be able to install by
> > clicking on a link on a web page:
> > - Nautilus themes
> > - Nautilus scripts
> > - RSS feeds.
> >
> > Andy's interested in helping out with this and may take a shot at
> > implementing Ben's idea over the next few days.
> >
> > To begin with, we should organize these 3 pages in a similar fashion, but in
> > a second phase (in a month or two?) we should integrate this into a
> > nautilus.themes.org type of thing,
> >
> > Bart
> >
> > Jon Allen wrote:
> >
> > > >>Hi Ben,
> > > >>
> > > >>It sounds like Jon Allen is also interested in helping out with this,
> > > >>so I'm bringing
> > > >>this thread on-list.
> > > >>
> > > >>Yes, it'd be great if users could just click on a link in the
> > > >>directory to add a news
> > > >>feed.  Is that easy to do?  Can the sample code be made to work with
> > > >>Nautilus
> > > >>somehow?  Is that something you want to help with?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >As a different approach than the javascript snippet I posted earlier,
> > > >we could create a mimetype. (application/nautilus-rss?) and simply
> > > >make small xml files like:
> > > >
> > > ><?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > ><rss_news_channels>
> > > >   <rss_channel name="Advogato"
> > > >uri=http://advogato.org/rss/articles.xml";
> > > ><http://advogato.org/rss/articles.xml> show="false" open="false"/>
> > > ></rss_news_channels>
> > > >
> > > >and put a handler within Nautilus that would add these to the news
> > > >feed file.  You could do personal or global install and it would use a
> > > >suid helper app to install globally after prompting for root password.
> > > >
> > > >-b
> > >
> > > This sounds good.  Another idea: 'Add to News Sites' context menu item in
> > > View as Web Page - user right-clicks on news-feed link and selects 'Add to
> > > News Sites', Nautilus automagically adds to local list.
> > >
> > > Regarding nautilus.themes.org suggestion in previous post - I think this
> > > will be very helpful.  Themes, rss feeds, etc. would be ideal content for
> > > such a site.
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