[Thunar-dev] url handlers

[Benedikt Meurer]

Wit Wilinski wrote:
> As for plugins for url handlers, it would be a magnificent idea to have a camera:// interface,
> a plugin based on libgphoto2. It would display thumbnails for photos in the camera's memory,
> allow for copying them to local hard drive and deleting from the camera.
> 
> What do you think about such an idea?

As said earlier, I'm not sure whether the plugin manager will be ready 
for Thunar 1.0. From the current infrastructure, it would be quite easy 
to add a ThunarCameraFile/ThunarCameraFolder implementation (well, ok, 
the ThunarVfsUri class is not flexible enough right now, but that will 
be fixed soon), but the classes would need to be hardcoded into the binary.

Besides that, for this kind of stuff, dedicated applications are better 
suited. I'm not a big fan of the "let's put everything into the file 
manager" idea.

Benedikt