Re: How to contribute?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:02 +0200, Robin Hahling wrote:

> A friend of mine and myself started to developp an application that
> would copy files using the principle of queue and with the ability to
> pause a copy. But later on, we realised it would be much better if we
> can add this feature to nautilus as it already does lots of things
> like copying from an ftp server or handling the dragNdrop. Moreover,
> it would be more integrated to the system of someone who uses gnome as
> a DE.
> 
> So, my question is: is it possible to developp it as u plugin? (I
> think this would cause lots of problems) Or, is it possible to
> implemente those features in Nautilus directly and be part of nautilus
> developpers? We would love to participate!

No, plugins (currently extensions and nautilus scripts) has no way to do
this. They are very much limited in how they can extend nautilus.

So, such a feature would have to be made as a change to the core of
nautilus. Don't let that scare you though, things are not necessarily
easier just because you can do it in a plugin, often quite the reverse
is true.

So, just download the nautilus code, fire up your editors and start
hacking.

I'm personally a bit busy with non-nautilus work currently, so things
are a bit slow in nautilus land atm. I do my best to look at patches
when i can, and so do the other developers, but don't be discouraged if
there are some delays in responses.

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