Re: Large changes ahead... MERGED!

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 22:57 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 10:53 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 10:16 +0100, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:
> > > Hi Alexander,
> > > 
> > > Not to take away any of your valuable hacking time, could you explain
> > > the background of your work in a couple of lines? I.e. did you remove
> > > all dependencies on bonobo? What are you using instead? Is it
> > > faster/more stable/easier to maintain? 
> > 
> > NautilusViews (essentially the thing in the middle of the nautilus
> > window, like icon view and list view) are no longer Bonobo components,
> > and are not activated via bonobo-activation. Instead NautilusView is a
> > GInterface with a complimentary API for registration and creation. These
> > views are always in-process, and no out-of-process calls are required to
> > select or activate the view.
> 
>   Does nautilus now support views loaded at runtime for specific mime
> types?  Or do all plugins have to be loaded at program startup?

All nautilus extensions are loaded at program startup atm.

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