On 10/07/12 00:01, Simon Steinbeiß wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 23:21:02 +0200
Benedek Imre <[email protected]> wrote:
It's not Xubuntu's developers business: Yes, You're right - I've always guessed
it. I'm going to try to reach some guys at Xfce or at Xubuntu who knows them
and can help. It will be a bit hard, cause Xfce Desktop team and Thunar
developers are not the same (I'm not sure) and my proposal affects both of them.
Thunar's development is stalling a bit at the moment. The main developer has
recently relocated and he's busy with his new job, so we'll see how soon things
will start moving there again. And to get more to your point, Thunar is an
integral part of Xfce and the maintainer/developer of Thunar was always a core
member of the Xfce developers.
Otherwise we must see to integrate Catfish into Thunar is not a 5 minutes work
(furthermore Joshua wrote Thunar needs to be kept fairly lightweight and I
agree with him), so finally I've changed my mind and therefore I suggest keep
Catfish standalone, move forward with small steps, do some things for let the
search function is more easy to find for beginners also.
Moving forward in small steps is a very good idea.
While I agree that the context-menu entry is not as discoverable as can be, adding a link
to the main menu isn't going to happen for now. Thunar doesn't provide any way for
external applications to hook in a new menu-item and hardcoding a "file finder"
link to catfish would be ludicrous (even though it would be a really really simple patch)
because you have to keep in mind what'll happen if catfish isn't installed or gets
removed.
Renaming the application's menu-entry is something worth considering. I'll talk to the catfish-devs
about it. (Could imagine a name without dropping the "catfish name", something like
"Catfish desktop search".)
- Simon
If integration did happen, you wouldn't need to change Catfish's name at
all - just add a GenericName= field to its .desktop file and tell it to
use that.
J
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