[Thunar-dev] url handlers

[Erik Harrison]

On 6/30/05, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Wit Wilinski wrote:
> > As for plugins for url handlers, it would be a magnificent idea to have a camera:// interface,
> > a plugin based on libgphoto2. It would display thumbnails for photos in the camera's memory,
> > allow for copying them to local hard drive and deleting from the camera.
> >
> > What do you think about such an idea?
> 
> As said earlier, I'm not sure whether the plugin manager will be ready
> for Thunar 1.0. From the current infrastructure, it would be quite easy
> to add a ThunarCameraFile/ThunarCameraFolder implementation (well, ok,
> the ThunarVfsUri class is not flexible enough right now, but that will
> be fixed soon), but the classes would need to be hardcoded into the binary.
> 
> Besides that, for this kind of stuff, dedicated applications are better
> suited. I'm not a big fan of the "let's put everything into the file
> manager" idea.

And if there is one thing you simply MUST have in the file manager,
that is outside of Thunar's scope, then write a third party plugin.

Not that a plugin for the VFS is neccessary for 1.0, just that when it
does exist, then we can punt on these requests, and interested
developers can do the work without having to push the functionality
into the core.


> 
> Benedikt
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