Re: GSoC idea : Adding a Clutter view to Nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:51 +0100, Gaëtan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Gaetan Morin, I am a student in a software engineering
> school (Ensimag, France), and I am very much interested in
> participating in this year's Gnome GSoC.
> 
> One idea I would love to apply for would be to add a Clutter view to
> Nautilus. Of course this would not be too fancy and bloated. It could
> be kept simple, in the Gnome spirit, maybe start by mimicking the icon
> view and then add some subtle animations and improvements.
> I believe such a feature would be greatly beneficial to Gnome for the
> following reasons :
> - it would make nautilus feel more modern and appealing to the end
> user, and this should not be underestimated, especially for such a
> core component of the desktop experience.
> - it would provide a nice base for further file management paradigm
> experiments, e.g. for Gnome 3.0 and the ideas discussed here

I don't know what you mean by "clutter view", clutter is a general
toolkit for graphics rendering. We generally don't base our design
decisions on what kind of libraries are in-vogue, but rather on solid
user requirements and benefits.

At the very least you need to describe what you actually want to
achieve.