Re: Split/dual pane view again (but this time with code)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:30 +0100, Holger Berndt wrote:
> On Di, 03.03.2009 10:15, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> [problems of plugins/extensions]
> 
> >I don't exactly have a "conclusion" as such.
> [...]
> > I'm just ranting a bit,
> >because a lot of people seem to think that "plugins" is the final
> >solution to a lot of problems, when its IMHO a problem in itself.
> 
> Another feature that might make the development of split-view-based
> extensions superfluous is to make Nautilus' scripts system split-view
> aware. Similar to the environment variables that get set to selections
> of the active slot, we could have environment variables of the
> selections of the inactive pane. This would immediately allow things
> like directory comparison be done via actions, with zero effect on UI
> or older scripts.

We also want to have a dbus interface to nautilus so that you can query
for open windows, what the selection is, etc, etc. This could be used
for this too.