On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 17:05 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 16:49 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > I think having a dbus api for nautilus is an excellent idea. Suitable > > operations include things like: > > > > * list open windows and locations > > * open a window > > * reload windows showing a location > > * modify selection in a window > > Again why not, but I can't see the use case, except maybe for some > plugins.
Theser are not really meant to be used by developers of other applications, but for users and sysadmins scripting nautilus. > > * modify nautilus metadata like notes and emblems > > Great, but I also would like to see and use this metadata in other apps > (e.g. be able to tag a song or a movie in a media player). Should it > live in gio also ? While having a common metadata database has some merit it is also an extremenly complex problem (both technically and socially). GIO instead tries to solve a very well defined and understood problem domain that can be expected to work well and supported on multiple platforms. I don't think jamming experimental things like metadata into glib is a very good idea, at least at this point. -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
