Benedikt Meurer wrote: >Pat Carr wrote: > > >>Hello folks, >> >> I have been using TortoiseSVN for over a year now, and it seems like >>the only app I enjoy using on Windows, that I can't have in Linux. I >>have been looking around for a project like that but so far I found none >> similar to TSVN. It blends file management and source control with >>icon overlays to show the state of the files (up-to-date, modified, >>etc). Also adds context menus to the files/dirs to diff, commit, merge etc. >> Thunar is looking pretty damn good, Good Job Benny(TM). So I thought >>of this feature of icon overlays as an extension to Thunar, but reading >>over the docs and code for the extension API, I fail to see where/how >>this could be added. Is it possible now and I'm just blind and couldn't >>see it? Is this something worth adding for the future? >> >> > >Right now it's not possible. It could be added to thunarx, probably in >the same way it is done in Nautilus, but that would cause too much >trouble (in Nautilus this expected to be done asynchronously, which is >both tricky for the file manager and even more problematic for the >plugin writer). But since determining the proper emblems from the SVN >sandbox, doing it synchronously may block the GUI for some time. > >My preferred way would be to allow extensions to hook into thunar-vfs >(-> thunar_vfs_info_new_internal to be exact) and provide additional >information about the file. But this is also somewhat tricky. > >Personally, I'm not a fan of CVS/SVN integration in a file manager. IMHO >it makes more sense to integrate it into the IDE (i.e. Eclipse is a good >example here). > > What if your IDE consists of Thunar, Terminal, and Mousepad (Firefox for docs)? I think this kind of plugin arch was hashed over, and was determined to be discussed once 2.x comes in view (correct me if I'm wrong). I agree with this accessment. Xfce needs Thunar sooner than later, and not botched. Once the "right way" is determined, however, I believe that it should be as powerful as possible. This would keep Thunar both light and capable, similar to the idea of Firefox.
P.S. Hopefully it'll be a little harder to write plugins for Thunar than FF, as FF has a lot of really bad ones ;). >>Cheers, >>-Pat >> >> > >Benedikt >_______________________________________________ >Thunar-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
