Re: Observations about Nautilus extensions and more

[Zoran Rilak <zoran rilak gmail com>]

Let's get cracking then.  Dariem might be willing; anyone else who's
game? :)

Zoran

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 01:05 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 15.06.2008, 18:54 -0400 schrieb Zoran Rilak:
> > 
> > I agree with Dariem.  I tried to fiddle with Nautilus metafiles the
> > other day and found out that there was no API I could tap into without
> > resorting to reading source.  My use case was simple: for every
> > subfolder in a given folder, assign first image contained therein as
> > that folder's thumbnail image.  I feel like basic metafile API should
> > be
> > more exposed.  What is the official stance on this?  Is Nautilus to
> > remain a fairly monolithic beast, or is it due to lack of
> > time/interest?
> 
> The latter. We would really appreciate if anybody out there with enough
> time for adding an IPC interface to the metafiles put some efforts into
> this.
> 
> best regards,
>  Christian Neumair
>