Re: [patch] pluggable property dialog pages

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 11:05, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2002, James Willcox wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've attached a patch that makes it possible to have mime-type-sensitive
> > pages in the properties dialog.  It uses the good 'ol NautilusView stuff
> > people are used to, so there wasn't much required to make it happen. 
> > I've also attached a sample view that lets you see metadata contained in
> > audio files (mp3, ogg, etc).  Let me know what you think.
> 
> I checked in the generic part of this, and an image property page. The 
> image page is pretty lame right now, but i wanted to get it in as an 
> example. Later i'll spice it up a bit and add libexif support to it so 
> that you'll get nice data for your photos.

Awesome!

> 
> As i said before. The music info view should go in MonkeyMedia.

Oh, I agree.  I was totally not serious about putting that part in
nautilus....just an example.

> 
> Michael said on irc that changing the view creation to use the async 
> NautilusView control activation functions might be good. He also suggested 
> that maybe we should use plain Bonobo components instead of NautilusViews, 
> which might make sense.

Yeah, I think using async activation is definitely a good idea.  I am
not sure why we wouldn't want to use NautilusView though.  I mean, the
interface is exactly what we need.  Plus, it might be easy to modify,
say, the notes sidebar to also work for files (it currently only works
for directories).  There is the issue of confusion between regular files
views and property page views (i.e., property page views showing up in
the component chooser), but I think that can be easily worked out.

Thanks,
James