Re: Killing Views Part 2 - The return of the Usabilty study

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Gregory Merchan wrote:

> If Nautilus would claim an X selection listing selected files, we could
> have an previewer independent of Nautilus. The user would just run the
> previewer if he wants such a thing.
>  
Could you explain how X selections could help here?  Without the help of 
the XFIXES extension (which has zero deployment, and probably won't for 
a while), the preview app would need to periodically poll this selection 
for changes unless I am mistaken.

James.

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