Benedikt Meurer wrote: >Christian Lundgren wrote: > > >>Hi list, >> >>I was thinking how it would be nice to have a virtual folder in Thunar >>that contains installed applications. Sort of like OS X' finder: >>http://www.moose.co.uk/gfx/sup/dup/max/itc/finder-apps-win.gif >> >>This could probably be done by integrating parts of xfdesktop, I've made >>two mockups based on the idéa: >>http://lunke.se/tmp/thunar-apps.png >>http://lunke.se/tmp/thunar-apps2.png >> >>So what do you think? >> >> > >Thunar already supports applications using their .desktop files. E.g. >you could create a folder "Applications" and put in the various .desktop >files (or just open $prefix/share/applications). > >Real integration with the menu system, as done with the menu-method in >gnome-vfs, is not planned for 1.0. Indeed, I don't think this is a good >thing to have in the default file manager anyways. I'd like to see this >as separate application (probably hooked into the file manager at some >place), whose GUI is similar to that of Thunar. This should be easy to >write (probably using thunar-vfs for async loading, etc.). You could >also modify the xfce4-appfinder accordingly. > >
perhaps add this to the list of possible plugins for 2.0? sounds like a candidate functionality to me (including a thunar view to see the mcs plugins :^P) Auke _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
