[Thunar-dev] plugin discussion

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Hi all,

Yes, I know it's premature to discuss Thunar plugins at this point, as
there may not even be a plugin interface in 1.0.  Having said that,
there's been a lot of unproductive discussion over the past couple weeks
about pet features that people want that are out of 1.0's scope, and are
more appropriate for third-party plugins.

So, with that in mind, I think it might be useful to try to flesh out --
at a very high level -- what Thunar plugins should look like.

I can currently think of two types of plugins that could be useful in a
user-visible way:

1) View plugins: plugins that add an extra view type to complement icon
view, list view, etc.  A thumbnail view would fit here, if it's not
included in Thunar proper.

2) Action plugins: plugins that add file/directory actions, that are
probably added to the right-click context menu.  Examples might include
a plugin to create a tarball of a directory, or open an email window
with a file attached.

I'm sure there are other types I'm not thinking of; this is just my
30-second summary.

Perhaps someone should set up a wiki page for this, and we should start
listing features that are candidates for plugins.  At least, that way,
if someone comes on the mailing list saying they think feature X should
be present in Thunar's core, we can say "no, that's something suitable
for a plugin, see [URL]".  I wouldn't mind setting up this page (Benny,
I'd need a wiki login for that).

	-brian

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