Re: How to contribute?

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 16:12, Robin Hahling
<robin hahling gw-computing net> wrote:
> 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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>
> Ok thanks for your answer.
>
> So, as you said, we'll just download the nautilus code, fire up our editors
> and start hacking.

Just ensure that you do your work on git master.


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