[Thunar-dev] Applications virtual folder

[Benedikt Meurer]

Auke Kok wrote:
>>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)

MCS should be dead by that time. But besides that, do people really want
to have an "applications view" in the file manager instead of a separate
application (with a similar gui)? What would be the advantage of having
this available inside the file manager vs. outside the file manager?

> Auke

Benedikt