[Thunar-dev] Faites vos jeux! The ball is rolling

[Lindsay Holmwood]

I've spoke to Jeff about Thunar a few weeks back, and he's really 
interested in getting the Nautilus dudes talking with Thunar people 
about collaboration. Jeff's in my local lug, and he's taken quite an 
interest in Xfce over the last few months.

With the future directions of Topaz (Gnome 3.0), the gnome developer 
community are looking at some massive changes on how users interact with 
their computers. One of the things they want to rework is Nautilus, and 
Jeff's really impressed with direction of Thunar's UI.

He suggested that code swapping between the Nautilus and Thunar projects 
would be a good idea so there wouldn't be much of a need to rewrite 
everything from scratch. (never mind that there isn't any code for 
Thunar right now :-). A lot of Nautilus is bloat, but i'm sure the code 
for some of the core stuff would be fine after a bit of clean-up.

Besides, if the Nautilus folk get onboard, it'll solve the 
lack-of-C-programmers problem.

I'll have another chat to him when I get the time and pick his brains.

Cheers,
Lindsay

Raphael Bosshard wrote:

>Hello there!
>
>"Crashing the cogwheels of the great machine came to a grinding halt. 
>Smoke rose out of it and a buzzing noise filled the room. Everyone was 
>shocked, not a word was spoken."
>
>Mr. Meurer makes a break. That's not expected and most probably quite a 
>drawback. However; I'm still interested in helping. And I'm convinced 
>that there are a lot of people also interested in a simple filemanager.
>
>(As I read on planet.gnome.org, Mr. Jeff Waugh, one of the 
>Ubuntu-Lead-Developers seems to be excited about something like Thunar. 
>Maybe we can get them into this little boat.)
>
>About the Python/C topic: I like Python, it's a nice programming 
>language. But I doubt that it is the appropriate tool for a filemanager.
>
>Maybe a first step would be to create a techdemo (not just a UI-demo), 
>coded in C with one simple view. Some basic features, rename, copy, 
>move, that's it. As I said;  I'm no coding wizard, but I can code.
>
>Raphael
>
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