Re: RFE: External access to file properties

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 10:42, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
> 
> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 12:58, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> > I think it would well serve GNOME integration to have a way to access the
> > Nautilus file properties window from outside of the Nautilus UI; for example,
> > by using the File->Properties menu item in an application.
> 
> 	Ok - there is an interface that Iain Holmes added to Bonobo for doing
> things like this called the 'PropertyControl' interface. Whether it's
> actually friendly enough for what you want I don't know - but aggregated
> with a PropertyBag with a 'uri' property - it'd prolly do the job - if
> in fact anyone really wanted to re-use it. That way all the mime data /
> etc. would be centralised inside nautilus.
> 
> 	Then again I don't quite see why you'd want to duplicate that
> functionality somewhere else particularly, what's the purpose of all
> that ?

Because Ideally when you do File-> properties in a document app (say
gedit) you would get the same property dialog as you do in nautilus.
(and file-> properties is recommended in the hig).

dave