[Thunar-dev] Help needed?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Auke Kok wrote:
> 
> As such we have two options:
> 
> (1) Follow Benedikt where he is going and be confident that his 'thunar' 
> will integrate or operate well within Xfce4
> 
> (2) Fork thunar into something new and make sure ourselves that ... see 
> above.

I vote for #2.  To be perfectly blunt, Benny hasn't been too forthcoming
with his position lately.  I understand wanting to take a break, but at
this point I'd rather not rely on someone external, especially someone
who isn't really sure how involved he wants to be.

To that end, I'm looking here:
http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-relations-20050328.png

I'm thinking about implementing very tiny, incomplete versions of
ThunarFileInfo and ThunarMimeInfo, and then building ThunarDesktopModel
and ThunarDesktopView on top of them.  I'm going to try to do this by
this weekend.  I have a friend visiting me for a week starting next
Monday, so I likely won't be coding at all while he's here.

> As wel currently lack C programmers with a good perspective on design 
> this is a really big problem. Definately a dilemma I would say.

Yep.  For now, the only real solution to this is for C devs who *do*
have some design perspective to write some very basic architecture code,
basically just interfaces, and let others fill in the implementations as
needed.  That way anyone who wants to take a crack at it can contribute,
and the presumably few experienced devs don't feel like they're writing
the entire thing.

After we have some code, hopefully we can get some Nautilus/GNOME people
interested in contributing.  Right now we just have vapor.

If we decide to take this route, we need a new name for the project.
- From the OSNews poll (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10146), it
looks like 'Pathfinder' was 2nd place behind Thunar.  Then 'File
Manager' (which I think is stupid).  'Scout', 'Digger', and 'Nomad'.  I
kinda like 'Pathfinder'.

Or, we could take the _real_ first place choice, and call the file
manager 'All of these names suck' ^_~.

	-brian

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