[Thunar-dev] Applications virtual folder

[Auke Kok]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

>Christian Lundgren wrote:
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>
>>Hi list,
>>
>>I was thinking how it would be nice to have a virtual folder in Thunar
>>that contains installed applications. Sort of like OS X' finder:
>>http://www.moose.co.uk/gfx/sup/dup/max/itc/finder-apps-win.gif
>>
>>This could probably be done by integrating parts of xfdesktop, I've made
>>two mockups based on the idéa:
>>http://lunke.se/tmp/thunar-apps.png
>>http://lunke.se/tmp/thunar-apps2.png
>>
>>So what do you think?
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>>
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>Thunar already supports applications using their .desktop files. E.g.
>you could create a folder "Applications" and put in the various .desktop
>files (or just open $prefix/share/applications).
>
>Real integration with the menu system, as done with the menu-method in
>gnome-vfs, is not planned for 1.0. Indeed, I don't think this is a good
>thing to have in the default file manager anyways. I'd like to see this
>as separate application (probably hooked into the file manager at some
>place), whose GUI is similar to that of Thunar. This should be easy to
>write (probably using thunar-vfs for async loading, etc.). You could
>also modify the xfce4-appfinder accordingly.
>  
>

perhaps add this to the list of possible plugins for 2.0? sounds like a 
candidate functionality to me (including a thunar view to see the mcs 
plugins :^P)

Auke