[Thunar-dev] a plugin request idea

[Stephan Arts]

On 5/5/06, Stephan Arts <psybsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/4/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> > Mike Massonnet wrote:
> > >>>Back in my windows days I really fuond this plugin to windows explorer
> > >>>really handy:
> > >>>
> > >>>http://www.pressibus.org/windows/fichiers/gbdfolder.html
> > >>
> > >>I like the idea, tho I don't like the tree view. Do you know JDiskFree
> > >>(not sure about the exact name, it's part of jgoodies and solaris,
> > >>IIRC)? Something like that, with a Thunar plugin, that'd be perfect.
> > >
> > > In KDE are nifty tools to get information about used disk space.
> > >
> > > kdirstat (windirstat is a port for windows)
> > > http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ (http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/)
> > > http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/screen-shots/kdirstat-main.png
> > >
> > > filelight
> > > http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/
> > > http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/images/filelight_0.6.3-2.png
> > >
> > > I don't think they could fit in the property box (it is a slow process and I'm
> > > happy with the throbbler special behaviour :>) but they are good softwares to
> > > be kept left. Custom actions are actually a good entry point for them... :)
> >
> > Jep, FileLight comes close to JDiskFree. KDirStat features the same
> > useless UI as does baobab.
> >
> > I don't care if its part of the properties dialog or available via the
> > context menu. But such an utility would be really neat.
> >
> > Maybe somebody wants to start with a Python/Ruby mockup. The actual
> > drawing of the stats should be easy using cairo (there's a python cairo
> > + GtkWidget tutorial).
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mike.
> >
> > Benedikt
>
> I have been walking around with the following plugin idea, a
> subversion plugin like tortoise-svn on windows.
>
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
>
> Since thunar is the first file-manager i actually use in daily work i
> think this is rather usefull (at least for me, which is why i intend
> to write it).
>
> What are your ideas about this?

I thought a discussion about this has been going on in #thunar too,
but i have a bad memory regarding IRC. So i am sorry if i offend
anyone with the same idea.

> Stephan