Does the python interface allow threads? If so, spawn a worker
thread. If no, spawn a new process that does the actual job. This way, you can
return control back to nautilus faster, avoiding the “hick-up” as you do heavy
IO work.
Stian Skjelstad
Fra:
nautilus-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:nautilus-list-bounces gnome org] På
vegne av Seemanta Dutta
Sendt: 28. april 2010 15:18
Til: nautilus-list gnome org
Emne: A nautilus script to enqueue folders and files to rhythmbox
Hi Nautilus hackers/users,
First of all hats off to all Nautilus hackers. This is such a fine piece of
software. I have been using Linux for more than 10 years now and more
particularly Gnome where I find Nautilus extremely well integrated. You guys
have done a damn fine job of creating/maintaining Nautilus !
I recently wrote a small python plugin to enqueue files or folders recursively
into the rhythmbox play queue. Please find it here: http://seemanta.net/myblog/?p=634.
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this. If there is a dedicated
mailing list for python extensions for Nautilus, please let me know.
I am however, facing one issue in my script and need your inputs regarding
it. Whenever a big folder with several levels of sub-folders and files is
selected, there is a high latency in Nautilus during which it seems to become
unresponsive. This is because my plugin is creating a list of files that need
to be enqueued and this is done recursively. Is there a way to overcome this? I
agree, that for huge folders, if I right click the delay might be acceptable.
But I think if I simply select a folder, the python plugin should not get
invoked.
Any ideas how to make my script run only in case of a right-click and not on
normal left click selects ?
regards,
Seemanta
