[Thunar-dev] Add as a plugin or touch the core system?

[Oscar Miras]

Yeah, that's right. something similar to this I have recently noticed that
has been add on Geequie . They call it "Calendar view".
thanks for the information: I would have to work inside Thunar if I want to
implement this feature.

2009/3/4 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>

> Hey,
>
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:58:29 +0100
> Oscar Miras <oscar.miras at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi ,
> >
> > First of all, sorry for my English: I'm studying to improve it,
> > really. My name's Oscar Miras, and I'm a student working on my final
> > project degree; at the Informatics Barcelona's School.
> > Me and my tutor are deciding in wich project we are going to work on.
> > We're checking mainly two programs: Gqview ( now Geequie) and Thunar.
> >
> > We want to add a new feature to make navigation between files more
> > intuitive . For instants, one example is to group by date all the
> > pics shown on the navigation windows of Thunar, in a similar way that
> > Fotolog does: showing it as calendar format , emphasing on the dates
> > where the major amount of pics were created. The reason is that when
> > Thunar ( and more others image navigation programs ) have a large
> > amount of pics, it's quite difficult to find the exact picture you
> > are trying to find( even using thumbails) Moreover, people do not
> > usually change the default name of a picture when they make one with
> > their camera. We also may color the days of the calendar where more
> > photos has occurred.
> >
> > We're thinking also about using other meta-data information that
> > multimedia files can give us, so maybe we colud use the camera time
> > and date to sort the photos.
> > I'm talking all the time about multimedia files,but everything i'm
> > talking about could also be applied to other types of files  . There
> > have been just two exemples; the project has just started ;).
> >
> > The main question is: if we finally decided to add this feature to
> > Thunar, should it be part of the core of Thunar (and maybe make it as
> > a 'switch option'), or does it look like more like a plugin? Is it
> > really so difficult to modify the core of Thunar ( we want to finish
> > project on July, working on it 4 hours a day )
>
> So, whate you are talking about would be an additional view that could
> be used as an alternative to the icon, list and detail views? Right now
> this is only possible inside Thunar, not via a plugin.
>
> Cheers,
> Jannis
>
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