App idea

[Harold Aling]

sofar wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I have seen plenty of people asking for application ideas recently - but no good ideas. Well - I have been thinking of one that would provide a good project and would be easy to implement in the xfce-style of making programs - modular, small, fast.
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> Xfce lacks an archive manager - in the future xffm and thunar might implement some system to browse, create, edit archives of different types. 
If you decide to make it a stand-alone app, please create it in a way 
that Thunar (/xffm) can use it as a library or something. I would really 
detest it being a separate app since it's something a full featured -yet 
lean- file manager should include.
> There are plenty of possible places to rip (borrow!) good (and worse) parts of code from. xfburn is a good example of how a GUI can wrap around user functions. xarchive/xarchiver have basically implemented some of the functionality of what an archive manager needs.
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Thunar has a good interface? ;)
> I would like to see if I can startup an xfce archive manager with interested people - I can work out design objectives, review code and all but really need programmers (experience would be nice!) to help me out. 
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> I'm mainly thinking of the following:
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> - small!
> - feature-poor, only minimal operation supported
> - plugin interface or similar - use 3d party compression/decompression tools, detect on runtime if possible
> - use mime spec for determining file type(?)
> - drag&drop support for adding files to an archive (and create)
> - drag&drop support for extracting files from an archive (1)
> - thunar integration with fd.o desktop spec "action"s - "extract here"
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> So, I'm kicking the ball into the field - feel free to kick it around. I hope people will take up this challenge and come up with something that makes Xfce a better desktop!
>
> Auke
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