[Thunar-dev] whish list

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
>>> - samba support
>> 
>> This will be provided by D-VFS, once finished (or maybe we'll add a
>>  Gnome-VFS based ThunarFolder/ThunarFile implementation at some
>> time).
> 
> What about the following scenario: I'm browsing a samba share and I
> see a movie I want to play, my preferred application to open this
> mime-type is mplayer. I don't think I it should be necessary to
> download this file before I can play it, but feeding mplayer an vfs
> uri won't work.
> 
> Of course this can be solved with a plugin adding a "mount" button
> which runs a simple shell script redirecting me to a local directory
> showing the same samba share. But I feel that for the common user to
> use this kind of thing, it should be fixed "out of the box".

The application "tells" the file manager whether it can accept URIs (see
the desktop entry spec for details). If the application supports only
local paths, the file manager automatically downloads the file to a
temporary location and fires the application on the temporary file.

>>> - a shelf
> 
>> We had that discussion already, and the result was that it doesn't
>> fit with the bookmarks feature. Instead, one can write a simple
>> panel plugin that does exactly this, and it's even independent of
>> the file manager in use.
> 
> So that's a yes for plugins ? Oh my :)

Panel plugins, yes. ;-)

> -- Pardus

Benedikt

-- 
Xfce  --  small, stable, fast  --  http://www.xfce.org/

           (__)
           (oo)
     /------\/
    / |    ||
   *  /\---/\
      ~~   ~~
...."Have you mooed today?"...