Re: [PATCH] Information Sidebar plugins

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 02:12 +0100, Amos Brocco wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ...as my "undo/redo thing" has to wait for a little bit more support
> from gio... I'm sitting down here playing with the source code, hoping
> to produce something useful...
> 
> Sooo... this patch extends the libnautilus-extension plugin mechanism by
> allowing new widgets to be added to the information sidebar. 
> It could be interesting for Tracker / Beagle to integrate a widget to
> set/retrieve/show tags attached to files, or to integrate
> a mini player for audio/video files, or to integrate a sudoku widget,
> or...
> Ideally, everything that is shown now in the sidebar (icon, info, and
> "open with..." buttons) could be implemented as plugins.

There has long been discussions of adding a new preview pane that shows
previews (large thumbnail, play button for audio, inline play video
widget, etc) and also show various metadata for this.

Somewhat similar to whats shown at:
http://njpatel.blogspot.com/2007/02/nautilus-love.html

It would show a preview widget (pluggable), a nice title and a list of
various metadata we can extract about the file. The pane would be
possible to show/hide disable etc just like other window elements.

Having this in the sidepane isn't imho a good idea, because then its
impossible to use in spatial mode, and it covers important navigation
tools in browser mode that you might want to use while previewing stuff.