[Thunar-dev] A simple "panel" mode would be useful

[Erik Harrison]

On 12/9/06, Jean-Philippe Guillemin <jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would it be possible to add a "panel" | "restricted" mode (as a CLI
> option) to Thunar?
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> I mean a mode with :
> - no side panel,
> - no menu,
> - no location/navigation bar,
> - only the "Edit launcher" rightclick context option, nothing else.
>
> Intended usage :
> - Create a panel launcher app by pointing Thunar in this mode to a
> folder containing .desktop files
> - Can replace the appfinder by simply pointing Thunar to
> $PREFIX/share/applications

Ori points out some problems already. But have you considered simply
making an app that builds on libexo and thunar-vfs to do what want? I
mean, if you're taking out all the filemanager functionality, and just
using what is provided by these libraries, then it seems reasonable to
build a fresh app.


>
> As an example here's a screenshot of a system tools panel, performed
> with current version of Thunar
> (http://download.zenwalk.org/people/jp/misc/System-Tools-Manager.jpg) :
> it's launched with gksu, so the user is first asked for the root
> password, and of course Thunar warn him about the root mode of
> operations, which is nice. The only problem is that the menu remains, so
> the user is able to navigate AS ROOT in the filesystem. Another problem
> is that the root accounts thunarrc is used globally with this config.
>
> What do you think about this idea ?
>
> JP
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Erik

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