Re: Extending WebDAV featureset?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 21:43, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am interested in experimenting with more complex interactions
> between Nautilus and Plone (http://plone.org). Currently I'm working on
> extending the set of namespaces and properties that are exposed through
> WebDAV in order to write a Win32 (yuck) frontend that is able to perform
> some operations (like control workflow, locks, metadata, etc).
> 
> I have
> read some documentation on Nautilus and it seems that there are two
> options: writing a gnome-vfs extension specific for this, or working with the
> existing WebDAV vfs and extending Nautilus by adding context menus and
> such.
> I'm not experienced with C programming, but it seems like Python, bonobo
> and pygtk are the way to go.
> Does this sound like a reasonable thing to do? Such extension would be
> distributed as an add-on to Nautilus.

I'm not sure exactly what it is you want to do, but its possible that
nautilus extensions will do what you want. You can try playing around
with it and see if it seems to work for you.

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