[Thunar-dev] thunar = widget?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Andrew Smith wrote:
> hello

Hello Andrew,

> i'm sorry i'm asking this without doing much research, but i'm so 
> excited about the idea :)
> 
> i need two file browsers in an open source iso editor i'm making, 
> http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/
> 
> one to show files on the filesystem and one to show files on the cd image.
> 
> i'm wondering, would it be possible to use thunar as-is, without 
> copy-pasting code to do one or both of those tasks? so all of it would 
> be a widget in my app?
> 
> if not (surely thunar wasn't designed for this:)) could some kind soul 
> point me in the right direction in my quest to rip off the hard work you 
> guys did and include it in my application? it is (or rather, will be 
> when it's finished) gpled of course.
> 
> i'm trying to use pure gtk by the way, but considering the ammount of 
> work this would save me i think i'd be willing to add libexo to the list 
> of dependencies.

Well, the classes ThunarFile, ThunarFolder, ThunarListModel and
ThunarStandardView may be what you are looking for. But using them
out-of-the-box in your project will not be possible. You'll need to
adjust them.

> by the way, anyone have any idea how long until a stable thunar is released?

2-3 months, depends on Xfce.

> thanks!

Benedikt