On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:44:05 +0100 Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I only mentioned Thunar as an example, because it's usage of the fdo > > specs for the "send to" menu IMO is very clean and simple. > > You still haven't explained what Thunar does that nautilus-sendto (or > nautilus) would benefit from? > > > Just drop a > > desktop file in /usr/share/Thunar/sendto and you are ready to go. I > > don't know a file manager that offers similar functionality > > You mean like Windows 95's shortcuts so you can right-click on a file > and send to a floppy or the mail program? > > > and IMO this > > should be a standard feature across all desktops - then you don't > > even need a successor for nautilus-sendto. > > If it's anything like Windows 95, then it's still missing: > - ability to compress the files (optionally, or forced if sending a > directory) I'm not sure what you mean with this. > and > - discovery of targets (either Bluetooth OBEX PUSH devices, UPNP > shares, mail or IM contacts) Thunar has two things in its send-to context menu: - desktop entries from $XDG_DATA_DIRS/Thunar/sendto/ - volumes that it monitors using ThunarVFS (and GIO in the future) So, you're right, the $XDG_DATA_DIRS/Thunar/sendto/ stuff only defines commands to which you can pass the selected files (like create a tarball of a directory or create an email with the files attached). Service discovery and volumes obviously don't work like this. - Jannis
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