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

[Jean-Philippe Guillemin]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> 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
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> 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.
>   
I disagree, it's completely in the field of the file browser to provide 
a restricted mode. It's not only useful for panels : it's essential for 
everyone who wants to provide limited root access to 1 directory 
content. This idea is not bad, it's just new :)

About writing an app from scratch : I already maintain a Linux 
distribution and several applications, it's enough, thanks :)


Cheers
JP

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>> 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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