[Thunar-dev] a plugin request idea

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Fri, 5 May 2006 00:35:34 +0200, Stephan Arts wrote:

> 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.

It's a good idea, no matter who had it. If nobody actually comes up with
an implementation of a SVN plugin, I might work on it (in late summer).

I'll be working on a project where I have to deal with the SVN API next
months, so right after that I might know enough about it to be able to
write such a plugin in reasonable short time.

Regards,
Jannis
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