Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It's too late for feature proposal, but I've been encouraged to post > this here anyway. > > Sushi [1] is a quick previewer application, targeting integration with > file managers such as Nautilus - you can read more about it in a blog > post I wrote some time ago [2], but it works in a similar way to OSX > Quicklook and Gloobus-Preview [3]. > > The project is still very young (I've been working on and off on it in > the last month or so), but it's working well already, it supports quite > a lot of file formats and Nautilus 3.1.1 can already make use of it, if > it's installed on the system (no strict dependencies are required, since > its start-up is implemented as a DBus-activated service). I envision > this could be also useful outside of Nautilus, (GtkFileChooser comes to > mind, but it might be useful for Finding and Reminding/Journal too?), > but I don't yet have grand integration plans for it. > > The project uses the GNOME infrastructure, depends on a number of > libraries of our platform already (Clutter, GTK+, WebKitGTK, GStreamer) > and a couple of other popular external libraries (libmusicbrainz, > GtkSourceView support is in the pipeline) but it's still lacking a > Bugzilla product (it could probably even use a Nautilus component for > it). > > So, with the new moduleset arrangement, does this qualify as a "OS > feature"? Does this need to go under some sort of approval/discussion > outside of the Nautilus forums? We didn't use to propose new features > for modules already in the desktop moduleset, but I've now been > encouraged to write about this project as targeting a feature. > This case is probably a bit borderline, as it's technically a new module > (so it would map to the old "new module proposal" process we used to > have), but it's used only by one application (Nautilus) currently...the > end result is I'm a bit confused :)
Sounds like it should be both a new feature and a part of GNOME core. It would be great to be able to introduce it as a feature in 3.2. I've started a feature page here [1]. Allan [1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/FilePreviewing > [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/sushi > [2] http://blogs.gnome.org/cosimoc/2011/04/29/sushi/ > [3] http://gloobus.net/ > > Cheers, > Cosimo > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list