Re: [Thunar-dev] latest svn 24475 won't compile

2007-01-15 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Maximilian Schleiss wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried out compiling the latest version and it stops with this error: > > cc1: warnings being treated as errors > thunar-vfs-thumb-jpeg.c: In function ‘tvtj_exif_parse_ifd’: > thunar-vfs-thumb-jpeg.c:371: warning: pointer targets in passing > argument 2

Re: [Thunar-dev] Proposed small patch for startup notification

2007-01-14 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Gregoire Gentil wrote: > Benny, > > > I propose a small patch to slighty improve the startup notification in > Thunar. I noticed that it differed slightly from the startup > notification used in the launcher of the panel which works better under > certain circunstance. See the proposed attached p

Re: [Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

2007-01-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: > The latter would be more useful I think - a kind of faster drop-in > replacement for convert that only does thumbnails, although am I correct > in saying pipes (|) are relatively slow? Pipes are simply buffers in the kernel, with a reader and a writer. If you want to avo

Re: [Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

2007-01-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: >> Checking my own source again... you should be able to store the >> thumbnail as JPEG. thunar_vfs_thumb_factory_generate_thumbnail() will >> also accept JPEGs and convert them to PNGs internally. > Ok, I've tested this - it doesn't work. Thinking about it this makes sense:

Re: [Thunar-dev] Mounting fails due to no available org.freedesktop.Hal services

2007-01-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jannis Pohlmann wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:40:10 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > >> Jannis Pohlmann wrote: >>> But: Whenever I start thunar with a running hald (sorry, my last >>> mail contained a lot of hald-* processes, but not "hald" itself) >&g

Re: [Thunar-dev] Mounting fails due to no available org.freedesktop.Hal services

2007-01-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jannis Pohlmann wrote: > But: Whenever I start thunar with a running hald (sorry, my last mail > contained a lot of hald-* processes, but not "hald" itself) and try to > mount one of the devices, I get this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ thunar > Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: Fai

Re: [Thunar-dev] thunar-volman

2007-01-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Andrey Fedoseev wrote: > В Птн, 12/01/2007 в 00:29 +0100, Benedikt Meurer пишет: >> For the brave: I've just imported an initial version of the >> thunar-volman, which provides automatic handling of removable drives and >> media for Thunar. This requires a reall

Re: [Thunar-dev] [Patch] Make Properties Dialog track selection

2007-01-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Ori Bernstein wrote: >>> I've written a patch to make Thunar reuse the same properties dialog and >>> change >>> the contents based on the last-selected file. This is quite useful when >>> managing stuff like manually renaming a large number of files by hand, or >>> just >>> for managing screen c

Re: [Thunar-dev] thunar-volman

2007-01-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jani Monoses wrote: >> I don't know what you mean by "GUI for the mount utility". exo-mount >> uses libnotify to give visual feedback of progress and pops up an error >> dialog if mount/eject/unmount fails. Besides that, what kind of GUI do >> you need? > > Admittedly I haven't used it but the deb

Re: [Thunar-dev] Mounting fails due to no available org.freedesktop.Hal services

2007-01-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jannis Pohlmann wrote: > Hey Benny, > > I just updated my exo and Thunar checkouts and installed them. But when > I try to mount my USB disk, the following error message pops up: > > "The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files." > > I wouldn't wonder if my setup is b0r

Re: [Thunar-dev] thunar-volman

2007-01-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jani Monoses wrote: > Benedikt Meurer wrote: >> For the brave: I've just imported an initial version of the >> thunar-volman, which provides automatic handling of removable drives and >> media for Thunar. This requires a really recent version of Thunar. >> >

Re: [Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

2007-01-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jens Luedicke wrote: > On 1/12/07, Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Checking my own source again... you should be able to store the >> thumbnail as JPEG. thunar_vfs_thumb_factory_generate_thumbnail() will >> also accept JPEGs and convert them to PN

Re: [Thunar-dev] thunar-volman

2007-01-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Nick Schermer wrote: > Does this mean we have a working volume manager and we don't need > Brian's xfce4-volume-manager test project (in the Xfce repo) anymore? Hm, didn't even that this test project existed. Well, basically, yes. > Nick Benedikt ___ T

Re: [Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

2007-01-11 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: >>> However, thunar-vfs-pixbuf-thumbnailer-1 is optimised for this purpose >>> (uses the jpg resizing trick mentioned on the xdg mailing list) and >>> takes just 0.1 seconds to convert the jpeg to a png - but I can't pipe >>> the output from dcraw into it. For this reason

[Thunar-dev] thunar-volman

2007-01-11 Thread Benedikt Meurer
For the brave: I've just imported an initial version of the thunar-volman, which provides automatic handling of removable drives and media for Thunar. This requires a really recent version of Thunar. It's designed to look and behave similar to gnome-volume-manager, tho of course, it's not bug-comp

Re: [Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

2007-01-11 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: > However, thunar-vfs-pixbuf-thumbnailer-1 is optimised for this purpose > (uses the jpg resizing trick mentioned on the xdg mailing list) and > takes just 0.1 seconds to convert the jpeg to a png - but I can't pipe > the output from dcraw into it. For this reason would i

Re: [Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

2007-01-11 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Stanislav Brabec wrote: BTW: I fail to see the problem here. How often do people regenerate thumbnails that +1 or 2 seconds for 40 JPEGs makes a difference? >>> It's important because it gives an impression of slowness and >>> unresponsiveness. And you rarely generate them, but you import

Re: [Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

2007-01-10 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Timothy White wrote: thunar-thumbnailers could install a mime type for the .MRW files. >>> OK, but how do we do that? Add it to /etc/mime.types, some distibutions >>> install that file as a separate package? >> No, install new mime types into the shared mime database. See the >> shared-mime-i

Re: [Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

2007-01-09 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Mike Massonnet wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:02:28PM +, Erlend Davidson wrote: >> There is a postscript thumnailer in there too now. This is a tad slow >> (worst is 3 seconds per file), and I don't see that being a fixable >> problem - it's just the way postscript is stored. I was think

Re: [Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

2007-01-09 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: >> thunar-thumbnailers could install a mime type for the .MRW files. > > OK, but how do we do that? Add it to /etc/mime.types, some distibutions > install that file as a separate package? No, install new mime types into the shared mime database. See the shared-mime-info p

Re: [Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

2007-01-09 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Samuel Verstraete wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:59:24 +0100 > Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Samuel Verstraete wrote: >>> Thunar guessed those nef files correctly but it's still is not >>> thumbnailing... >> Is the t

Re: [Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

2007-01-09 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Samuel Verstraete wrote: > Thunar guessed those nef files correctly but it's still is not > thumbnailing... Is the thumbnailers cache up2date (grep ~/.cache/Thunar/thumbnailers.cache for the mime type)? Benedikt ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xf

Re: [Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

2007-01-09 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Timothy White wrote: > With my Minolta, it doesn't. > $dcraw -w -i PICT3834.MRW > PICT3834.MRW is a MINOLTA DYNAX 5D image. > Can you check what your system seems the mimetype as... $ file -i -b PICT3834.MRW >>> $ file -i -b PICT3834.MRW >>> application/octet-stream >> fil

Re: [Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

2007-01-09 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Timothy White wrote: >>> With my Minolta, it doesn't. >>> $dcraw -w -i PICT3834.MRW >>> PICT3834.MRW is a MINOLTA DYNAX 5D image. >>> >> Can you check what your system seems the mimetype as... >> $ file -i -b PICT3834.MRW > > $ file -i -b PICT3834.MRW > application/octet-stream file doesn't use t

Re: [Thunar-dev] [Patch] Make Properties Dialog track selection

2007-01-07 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Ori Bernstein wrote: > I've written a patch to make Thunar reuse the same properties dialog and > change > the contents based on the last-selected file. This is quite useful when > managing stuff like manually renaming a large number of files by hand, or just > for managing screen clutter when goi

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2007-01-07 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: >>> Attached a rough latex thumbnailer. Uses latex to generate a dvi and >>> then convert to output a png. >>> >> You should cleanup the temporary files used by your script. >> > Latex can leave quite a lot of temporary files behind after a compile. > How should I d

Re: [Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

2007-01-07 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jens Luedicke wrote: > Heya, > > I made a dcraw thumbnailer for RAW image files: > > http://wiki.perldude.de/doku.php?id=stuff:dcraw_thumbnailer > > Tested with *.cr2 files (image/x-canon-crw). Nice. Something for thunar-thumbnailers, Erlend? > Jens Benedikt __

Re: [Thunar-dev] Checking whether the task of copying a bunch of files was successfully completed

2007-01-06 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Is there some easy way of checking whether the task of copying a bunch > of files to a different directory was successfully completed? With > KDE, one can chose the option of not closing the copy window at the > completion time, but I cannot find something similar

Re: [Thunar-dev] Use another mouse button for gestures

2007-01-05 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Hello everyone. >> >> Reading the thread „Thunar Improvement Idea“ I encountered a question I >> asked >> myself some time ago but didn’t ask here: >> >> Could it be possible to allow using gestures with another mouse button >> instead >> o

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2007-01-04 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: > > Benedikt Meurer wrote: >> Benedikt Meurer wrote: >> >>>>> So am I correct is saying that a gif image is actually thumbnailed by >>>>> converting it to a png? What do you use to do that, imagemagick? I am >>>

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar Improvement Idea

2007-01-03 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jelle de Jong wrote: > Benedikt Meurer wrote: >> Jelle de Jong wrote: >>>>> and what does IIRC means? Why does it looks awkard the screenshot >>>>> doesn't look bad. Nautilus also have these functions btw. >>>> Yes and Nautilus is a mess, h

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar Improvement Idea

2007-01-03 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jelle de Jong wrote: >>> and what does IIRC means? Why does it looks awkard the screenshot >>> doesn't look bad. Nautilus also have these functions btw. >> Yes and Nautilus is a mess, hence we conclude... >> >> Anyway, since we're trying to release it's not the time to mess with the >> basics, no m

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar Improvement Idea

2007-01-03 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jelle de Jong wrote: > http://bugzilla.xfce.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=Thunar&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwo

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2007-01-03 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Your website is located at: > > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-thumbnailers/ ... and the entry on the Thunar website: http://thunar.xfce.org/plugins.html#thunar-thumbnailers Benedikt ___ T

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2007-01-03 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: > Attached a rough latex thumbnailer. Uses latex to generate a dvi and > then convert to output a png. You should cleanup the temporary files used by your script. > Does anybody know how konqueror or nautilus thumbnails text? > > I've looked at text2gif. Nautilus does tha

Re: [Thunar-dev] Eject Failure

2007-01-03 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Cory Christison wrote: > Hey, > > When ever I go to eject a CD/DVD from my drive, via the desktop > icon, or in Thunar I get the message: > /** (gnome-eject:11361): WARNING **: Eject failed for > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_CAMP: > org.freedesktop.Hal.Dev

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar Improvement Idea

2007-01-03 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jelle de Jong wrote: > Hello, > > When thunar is in this mode: > > Menu->Location Selector->Pathbar Style > > Would it be possible to change thunar to the view like the attached > image. (the image is made with gimp and some magic) > > And than replace the "open the parent folder" button even f

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2007-01-02 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: >> I'd like to see a repository of additional thumbnailers/scripts. If >> somebody agrees to maintain the thumbnailers, I can setup a goodies >> project. I bet there are a lot of interesting file formats, which >> don't >> have thumbnailers right now (i.e. I'd very much wel

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2007-01-02 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: >>> Here's one for xmgrace .agr files (which generally contain a graph). >>> There is one problem however - .agr files have a mime-type of text/ >>> plain >>> so thunar won't know how to distinguish them from any other text >>> files. >> Install a mime type for the .agr fi

Re: [Thunar-dev] required depedencies

2007-01-02 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Maximilian Schleiss wrote: >> Ask the Gentoo maintainer? >> > I found these differences in the files from the xfce svn tree > http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/thunar/trunk/README and thunar.spec.in . Aye, hehe. This is because the exact version doesn't really matter, I guess. I don't really remember.

Re: [Thunar-dev] required depedencies

2007-01-02 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Maximilian Schleiss wrote: > Hello, > > I am modifying some Xfce ebuilds from "Gentoo's Experimental XFCE > Overlays" and just have a question or two about the dependencies of > thunar. In the Thunar.spec.in file you can find this: > ... > Requires:desktop-file-utils >= 0.7 > ... > For t

Re: [Thunar-dev] A simple "panel" mode would be useful

2007-01-01 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jean-Philippe Guillemin wrote: > What do you think about this idea ? I don't really like the idea of crippiling Thunar for this purpose. Instead, with some libfrap magic, it is fairly easy to come up with a special appbrowser, that can be used to address your problem. I hacked up a simple prototy

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2007-01-01 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: PS: Would you want to maintain a thumbnailers project? >>> I would yes, but how much work is involved and how much time is it >>> likely to take? >> Depends on you, of course. > > Ok. I'll do it. Ok, sign up for an account, see http://goodies.xfce.org/contribute/use

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2007-01-01 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: >> PS: Would you want to maintain a thumbnailers project? > > I would yes, but how much work is involved and how much time is it > likely to take? Depends on you, of course. Benedikt ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar launcher does not behave as I think it should ?! Update One

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jelle de Jong wrote: > Now If I open a tool like gftp or simply browse with my terminal in my > desktop directory. I see all those strange file name's by the *.desktop. > That don't make sens at all things like "set multiplier.desktop" for a > launcer that starts a music program and stuff like that

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar launcher does not behave as I think it should ?! Update One

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jelle de Jong wrote: >>> It is a little bit as when you add a launcher to the panel. Is the >>> example clear enough? Can this be created? >> To sum up: You want to set the file name? > > No that just a part of it. Also changes in the way a icon can be given. > Did you see the problem when you typ

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Mathias Brodala wrote: >> The scaling is not the problem. Thunar does that very good and very >> fast. > > Good to know. Faster than calling convert/mogrify? Definitely faster than invoking an external utility. > Regards, Mathias Benedikt ___ Thunar-d

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Right now Thunar scales down >> the 640x480 preview, which is not the optimal result for a webpage (IMHO). > > Well, then you could let the scaling be done via ImageMagick. This way you > could > optimize the thumbnail a bit (sharpening, …). Everything could go into a sh

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Mathias Brodala wrote: >> ---< html-thumbnailer.desktop >--- >> [Desktop Entry] >> Version=1.0 >> Encoding=UTF-8 >> Type=X-Thumbnailer >> TryExec=kwebdesktop >> MimeType=text/html; >> Name=HTML Thumbnailer >> X-Thumbnailer-Exec=kwebdesktop 640 480 %o %u >> -- >> >> T

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: > Here's one for xmgrace .agr files (which generally contain a graph). > There is one problem however - .agr files have a mime-type of text/plain > so thunar won't know how to distinguish them from any other text files. Install a mime type for the .agr files. Benedikt PS:

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Benedikt Meurer wrote: >> This is what „kwebdesktop“ offers: >> >> $ kwebdesktop 640 480 thumbnail.png file:///home/you/your-document.html >> >> And there you go: you have your thumbnail. How difficult would it be to >> integrate this? > > Probably 4 hour

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar launcher does not behave as I think it should ?! Update One

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jelle de Jong wrote: > It is a little bit as when you add a launcher to the panel. Is the > example clear enough? Can this be created? To sum up: You want to set the file name? Benedikt ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Benedikt Meurer wrote: >>> So am I correct is saying that a gif image is actually thumbnailed by >>> converting it to a png? What do you use to do that, imagemagick? I am >>> asking because the 'convert' binary could be used for eps. >> The image t

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Erlend Davidson wrote: >> So am I correct is saying that a gif image is actually thumbnailed by >> converting it to a png? What do you use to do that, imagemagick? I am >> asking because the 'convert' binary could be used for eps.

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Benedikt. Hey Matthias, > This is what „kwebdesktop“ offers: > > $ kwebdesktop 640 480 thumbnail.png file:///home/you/your-document.html > > And there you go: you have your thumbnail. How difficult would it be to > integrate this? Probably 4 hours to install KDE

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: > So am I correct is saying that a gif image is actually thumbnailed by > converting it to a png? What do you use to do that, imagemagick? I am > asking because the 'convert' binary could be used for eps. The image thumbnailers use GdkPixbuf (except for JPEGs, where we u

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar launcher does not behave as I think it should ?! Update One

2006-12-31 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Jelle de Jong wrote: > Thunar launcher does not behave as I think it should > > Linux xubuntu 6.10 > > Go to the desktop: > > Right clink -> Create launcher.. > Name: bla > wait for a few secs -> Things are now popping up that I can't explain. > Comment: blabla > Command: xterm > -> Press create

Re: [Thunar-dev] Desktop Refresh

2006-12-30 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > Benny, do you know how ThunarVfsMonitor (i.e. gamin/fam) behaves when > you try to monitor a symlink to a directory? Will it just monitor > changes to the symlink itself, or will it actually watch for changes to > the directory the symlink points to? It monitors the di

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar, dbus and hal devices

2006-12-30 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Moritz Heiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-26 14:32]: >> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:22:02 +0200 >> Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> BTW: It would be nice if Thunar would support halmount. >> Whats halmount? > > It's part of ivman. It's the program SUSE recomme

Re: [Thunar-dev] Make the bookmarks stick?

2006-12-30 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Harold Aling wrote: >>> There is an option in autofs to show the directories all >>> the time, even if they are not mounted. >>> It should solve your problem >>> >> >> Good point, thanks! >> >> However, the problem remains unchanged for all the bookmarks >> pointing to a subdirectory of an aut

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-30 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: > I'd love to contribute some thumbnailers (I use some less common file > formats, e.g. eps and I'd love to have them thumbnailed). The trouble > is, while I can program well in C++, I don't know where to start with > writing for thunar. Is there a howto on writing plugins

Re: [Thunar-dev] [SPAMKLASSAT av SU] Permission denied error while creating custom command

2006-12-30 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Carl Ibbotson wrote: > I'm trying to make particular files open with particular applications > which aren't listed in the "recommended" or "other" applications. > > Yes, I have execute permission for these applications. But it still > doesn't work > > any ideas? Those applications probably did

Re: [Thunar-dev] Enhancement with trash [with PATCH, now conforming to Thunar/trunk/HACKING]

2006-12-30 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Marcos wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, I wrote a patch which allows the user remove files > directly, instead of > sending the to the Trash > > On the other hand, I just realized my patch does not conform to the standards > expected on > Thunar/trunk/HACKING. > > This new patch > a) also adds

Re: [Thunar-dev] Hi! about Thunar

2006-12-30 Thread Benedikt Meurer
ranomano wrote: > Hi to all guys, Hi Claudio, > 1) > I would like to ask you, if, in future releases, could be implemented a > "chmod-like" gesture of file properties!!! > (e.g. advanced tab or a type-in text box) > > Now is very user-frendly > (oh, that is most important! No doubt at all ;) )

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar very slow on FC6

2006-12-30 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am beginning with XFCE on Fedora Core 6, and everything seems to > work fine, except Thunar that takes often a long time to pop up. Do > you know how to improve the very slow Thunar? My computer is a fast > one (with a Dual Core with 1GB of RAM). Probably someth

Re: [Thunar-dev] Desktop Refresh

2006-12-29 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Nick Schermer wrote: > I assume the desktop should refresh automatically when fam (or gamin) > and dbus are running... Else F5 (or Ctrl + R) should work. Jap, tho DBUS is not involved here. > Nick Benedikt ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.or

Re: [Thunar-dev] Problem with Trash?

2006-12-27 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Gregoire Gentil wrote: >> Right, that's awkward. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. For >> instace: >> - open a text file with Leafpad and it works, open it with >> GVIM and it >> doesn't work. >> - open an image with display and it works, open an image with GIMP and >> it doesn't wo

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-08 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erik Harrison wrote: > On 12/6/06, Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Erlend Davidson wrote: >>>>> Thunar is able to show thumbnails of HTML documents if they were created >>>>> by >>>>> visiting folders with Konqueror.

Re: [Thunar-dev] failed to determine mount point for /dev/sda1

2006-12-06 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Samuel Verstraete wrote: > Lately i'm experiencing a whole new problem (at least for me) with > thunar... Current svn and i keep getting the error message in the > subject. Manually using pmount to mount my mass storage devices > works like a charm but with thunar it fails > >>>

Re: [Thunar-dev] failed to determine mount point for /dev/sda1

2006-12-06 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Samuel Verstraete wrote: > > > On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:09:18 +0100 > Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Samuel Verstraete wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Lately i'm experiencing a whole new problem (at least for me) with >>&g

Re: [Thunar-dev] failed to determine mount point for /dev/sda1

2006-12-06 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Samuel Verstraete wrote: > Hi, > > Lately i'm experiencing a whole new problem (at least for me) with > thunar... Current svn and i keep getting the error message in the > subject. Manually using pmount to mount my mass storage devices > works like a charm but with thunar it fails > > dbus : 1.0

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

2006-12-06 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Erlend Davidson wrote: >>> Thunar is able to show thumbnails of HTML documents if they were created by >>> visiting folders with Konqueror. >>> >>> Could this thumbnailer be built-in? Or how can I enable or trigger it >>> without >>> Konqueror if it already is? >>> >>> >> Benedikt can correct

Re: [Thunar-dev] exo-preferred-applications

2006-11-23 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Gregoire Gentil wrote: > Benny, > > I would like to pre-configure the browser launched with a URL link. I > have understood that it's configurable with exo-preferred-applications > which seems to create > ~/.local/share/applications/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop. > > I manually created

Re: [Thunar-dev] thunar and sendto-email

2006-11-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Foorum wrote: > why I don't see "Mail Recipient" in the menu "Send To" ??? > > however I have the file "/usr/lib/thunar/thunar-sendto-email" The more important question is whether you have the thunar-sendto-email.desktop file. Benedikt ___ Thun

Re: [Thunar-dev] Dependences and IPC in Thunar

2006-11-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Mindaugas wrote: > Hello, > [here is a continuation of discussion started in Bug #2509] Yes, but I said, use the mailinglist. >> As said, that'd be overhead (-> maintaince). D-Bus is there as standard >> lightweight desktop IPC framework. There's no need to support different IPC >> mechanisms. >

Re: [Thunar-dev] crash

2006-11-07 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Harold Aling wrote: Thunar crashes always when I cut a sequence of files (1000) and I paste them on another folder. The o.s. is ubuntu (on dapper and on edgy too). >>> I can confirm this. Thunar crashed on trying to move ~30 files with >>> DnD as well as the cut-paste way

Re: [Thunar-dev] crash

2006-11-07 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Harold Aling wrote: > Pablo Hdez-M. Saiz wrote: >> Thunar crashes always when I cut a sequence of files (1000) and I >> paste them on another folder. >> The o.s. is ubuntu (on dapper and on edgy too). > I can confirm this. Thunar crashed on trying to move ~30 files with DnD > as well as the cut-p

Re: [Thunar-dev] ThunarVFS Questions

2006-11-05 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Ori Bernstein wrote: > Hi. > > I'm writing a panel applet with ThunarVFS, and I have a couple of API > questions and suggestions: > > - Is there any way to test if a file exists? > I need this because a large number of apps save by writing to a temporary > file, and then unlinking the fi

[Thunar-dev] Thunar 0.5.0 and libexo 0.3.1.12 rc2 releases

2006-11-05 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Hello everybody, I just released Thunar-0.5.0rc2 and libexo-0.3.1.12rc2 as part of Xfce 4.4RC2, which will be released in a few hours. The separate tarballs are provided for users of Xfce 4.2.x that don't want to upgrade yet, and users of other desktop environments. It is planned to be the last re

[Thunar-dev] thunar-archive-plugin 0.2.2

2006-11-04 Thread Benedikt Meurer
This is a minor release, which adds support for the new Drag'n'Drop menu in Thunar 0.5.0 and tangoified icons, as well as several new and updated translations. Download: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=910&release_id=11557 Release notes: http://developer.berlios.de/proj

Re: [Thunar-dev] 'Retry' button on copy/move/delete fail

2006-11-04 Thread Benedikt Meurer
David Tenser wrote: > Harold Aling wrote: >> When copying/deleting/moving multiple files, it could be that you have >> insufficient rights to read one or more files. Thunar allows you to >> choose between cancel, skip and skip all... >> >> In this case I'd like to fire up a terminal, fix the perm

Re: [Thunar-dev] linking root paths

2006-11-04 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > Hey Benny, > > xfdesktop allows the user to drag (for example) the 'File System' icon > from the thunar path bar to the desktop, or to a folder icon on the > desktop, if for some reason they want to make a symlink to '/'. > However, thunar-vfs seems to explicitly disall

Re: [Thunar-dev] How to open folders (from a separated app)

2006-10-28 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Marcos wrote: > Hi! Hello Marcos, > I am developing a program which eventually needs to open directories on the > user's default window > manager. Does anybody know how to do that ? How can I find out if the user > prefers Thunar, > Nautillus, Konqueror or anything else ? If xdg-utils are inst

Re: [Thunar-dev] Erros compiling with hal 0.5.8.1

2006-10-27 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Rodrigo Coacci wrote: > I get this output when trying to compile thunar after upgrading to hal > 0.5.8.1 > Just taking out -Werror should do, but I thougth it was better to tell you. > > cc1: warnings being treated as errors > thunar-vfs-volume-hal.c: In function 'thunar_vfs_volume_hal_update': >

Re: [Thunar-dev] samba

2006-09-16 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Matt McClinch wrote: >>Here's the code: >> >>http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfce3/trunk/xfsamba/ >> >>if anyone wants to take a shot at reviving it. A standalone samba browser >>would be much appreciated, though I suspect using libsmb might be a better >>idea than using smbclient. > > Cool, it s

Re: [Thunar-dev] samba

2006-09-15 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Bernhard Walle wrote: >>Instead, what do you think of a network transparency API (which could >>be disabled at compile time for extra-lightweightness) that people >>can write plugins (samba, subversion, cvs) for. Currently I think >>only Konqueror has network transparency, so a gtk competito

[Thunar-dev] [Bug 2310] Thunar is very slow to open /usr/bin

2006-09-14 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Just in case somebody wants to join same old story again: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2310 Benedikt ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev

Re: [Thunar-dev] samba

2006-09-14 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Kresimir Spes wrote: > is there a chance that the smb protocol (windows shares) will be > implemented in thunar? I know the goal is to make a lightweight file > manager, but this is a very important feature. > a compromise would be to enable/disable smb:// at compile time. If there's a compile t

Re: [Thunar-dev] Rubberbanding behavior

2006-09-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Matt McClinch wrote: >>I know you people don't like it, but, what about an option (even a >>hidden one)? It would please both sides > > No, an option would be pointless. No one (besides me) spoke up in favor > of the new behavior anyway. I think we are all in agreement to revert. Reverted

Re: [Thunar-dev] Rubberbanding behavior

2006-09-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Björn Martensen wrote: >>I admit it can be annoying if you are used to starting the rubberband to >>the left of the icon and expanding it to the right. However, if you >>start it to the right of the filename and expand it to the left, I think >>this behavior makes more sense. That said, I thin

Re: [Thunar-dev] Rubberbanding behavior

2006-09-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Bjoern Martensen wrote: >I think this patch to libexo improves the rubberbanding in Thunar. I >have always found the current behavior less than ideal for a file >manager. With this patch, the length of a filename does not make any >difference as to whether or not that item is "ins

Re: [Thunar-dev] thunar & file filter

2006-09-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Kresimir Spes wrote: >>File a feature request. > > I'd love to, can you tell me which address to go to, I was unable to > find it on the net. http://bugzilla.xfce.org > Cheers, > Kresimir. Benedikt ___ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http

Re: [Thunar-dev] thunar & file filter

2006-09-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Oblio wrote: I'll second that. Great asset, Opera has something similar for mail. Search as you type would be great too. >>> >>>Search as you type is implemented long ago. >> >>Replying on myself, meh :D >> >>It is 'find as you type' that's implemented now, >>is this something different, I

Re: [Thunar-dev] Rubberbanding behavior

2006-09-13 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Matt McClinch wrote: >>> I think this patch to libexo improves the rubberbanding in Thunar. I >>> have always found the current behavior less than ideal for a file >>> manager. With this patch, the length of a filename does not make any >>> difference as to whether or not that item is "inside" th

Re: [Thunar-dev] Rubberbanding behavior

2006-09-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Matt McClinch wrote: > Hi Benedikt, > > I think this patch to libexo improves the rubberbanding in Thunar. I > have always found the current behavior less than ideal for a file > manager. With this patch, the length of a filename does not make any > difference as to whether or not that item is "

Re: [Thunar-dev] Current libexo doesn't compile..

2006-09-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Landry wrote: > ps/ot: i still have a gettext problem, for mostly each xfce component, > MSGFMT and GMSGFMT are not set in po/Makefile => compilation fails > on .po files. I manually set'em in the makefile, and it works. > Any idea for this other issue ? Check intltool and glib-gettextize, those a

Re: [Thunar-dev] Current libexo doesn't compile..

2006-09-12 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Landry wrote: > Hello, > > OpenBSD 4.0-beta, xfce 4.4-svn, with Revision 23130, i get this > compile error : > > Making all in exo-desktop-item-edit > if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. > -I.. > -I.. > -DBINDIR=\"/local/bin\" > -DDATADIR=\"/local/share\" > -DEXO_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE > -DG_LOG_D

Re: [Thunar-dev] Mounting volume

2006-09-11 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Luca Bruno wrote: > For sure, > i'm using HAL to shutdown but you need also sudo ;) > You have to put something like this in /etc/sudoers > > %users ALL = NOPASSWD: /path/to/xfce/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper > > I don't remember the exact line, but it should be closer to that... > Good luck. You

Re: [Thunar-dev] Arrange Items

2006-09-09 Thread Benedikt Meurer
David Courtney wrote: >>For this feature to be atleast partly usable, it must be an explicit >>action, i.e. "Remember view settings for this folder". >> > > > I think that is better anyway. Stay on the default view unless I > specifically state that I want this particular directory to have some

Re: [Thunar-dev] Order of files for humans

2006-09-09 Thread Benedikt Meurer
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello. > > I’d like to ask if Thunar is able to sort viewed files and directory in a more > useful manner somehow. > > At the moment, it sorts alphabetically, but first uppercase and after that > lowercase names. This results in two different orders. > > If I have three

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