Re: using menu-provider extension to change location

[Peter Goetz <peter gtz gmail com>]

Thanks for your answer, Alexander, although I was hoping for something
more positive :). So I guess I have to change some of the code of
Nautilus itself to get this functionality.
I guess it could also be done with a DBus interface as soon as this is
implemented and integrated in Nautilus (which unfortunately might take
some time...)


2009/3/17 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>:
> On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 20:35 +0100, Peter Goetz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to write an extension for nautilus which adds a button to
>> the toolbar that can be used to change the current location in
>> nautilus.
>>
>> I'm using the menu-provider extension to create the button, which
>> works perfectly fine, however I haven't found a way to actually change
>> the location from within my callback function. How can I accomplish
>> this? The only way I can think of (which seems to be very complicated)
>> is to use nautilus' source code while compiling my extension, do a
>> cast of the GtkWindow-parameter to a NautilusWindow-object and call
>> the nautilus_window_go_to function. Is there an easier solution?
>>
>> Anyone who can point me in the right direction? Thanks a lot!
>
> Right now there is no way to do this from an extension. For each thing
> that should be possible to do from an extension we need an extension
> point with well defined API and behaviour in libnautilus-extensions.
>
> At the moment most extensions focus on adding information and adding
> extra functionallity for the selected files or the current location, so
> there are no extension points for changing the current directory.
>
> You would need to add this before you can use it. You can't call
> nautilus_window_go_to() from an extension, as that symbol is not visible
> to the extension.
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