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

[Raphael Bosshard]

Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
> 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.

I also like the UI of thunar. I hope that, despite Mr. Meurer's parting, 
it will stay this way. Easy, simple, efficient.

> 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.
> 
Nautilus is... huge. There is a lot of cool stuff in it, a lot of 
architecture. Maybe even to much. I wrote some Nautilus patches and it 
always needed much work to get back into the code. There is still much 
stuff from the Eazle-days. Did you know that this Konfabulator-Thing was 
implemented orginaly in Nautilus?

It will take some time to clean up Nautilus. On the other hand; it's 
about time. ;)


> 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.
> 

That would be cool.

> 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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