Re: Nautilus vs gnome-shell and the future

[Marcus Carlson <nautilus mejlamej nu>]

Cosimo Cecchi skrev:
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 12:09 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>   
> > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:37 +0100, John Stowers wrote:
> >     
> > > > This is a slight change in focus for nautilus, as its now to a
> > > >         
> > > larger
> > >       
> > > > degree used when the user wants to do more complex file
> > > > operations. I think with this we can feel more confident that
> > > > for instance the split-view branch would fit better into
> > > > nautilus. Another thing is that we have more screen space now by
> > > > default, which I'd like to use to do a more expressive UI. 
> > > >         
> > > Speaking of UI changes, it would be great to see Cosimo's toolbar
> > > editor
> > > branch [1], or something similar, make it into the default install.
> > > This
> > > would hopefully allow uses of nautilus like [2].
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > [1] http://github.com/cosimoc/nautilus/tree/toolbareditor
> > > [2] http://davidsiegel.org/nautilus-simplified/
> > >       
> > Yes, i'm interested in getting this in and looking at simplify the
> > default toolbars. However, i have not gotten a ping from cosimoc that
> > the changes are ready for review yet, so i haven't looked at it. (In
> > fact, last i asked it was not ready.)
> >     
>
> (Note that most of the initial code for this has been written by Marcus
> Carlson, so credits go to him first :))
>
>   
Actually the credit should go to Christian Neumair who did the really 
initial code - I just brought it up to date :)
> It's still not ready for review, and honestly I don't think I will have
> time to work on it during this cycle, as I'm deep into my university
> thesis.
> John, if you or anyone else want to jump in and help with the code,
> that's obviously appreciated and warmly welcomed!
> So, if any of you is interested in working on this, feel free to ping me
> on IRC or by mail for an overview of the changes that still needs to be
> done.
>
>   
I'd like to help out, but I didn't have enough skills last time to pull 
i through - but maybe with some help...?

M
> Cheers,
>
> Cosimo
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