App idea

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Mar 20 07:19:51 CET 2006


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sofar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Xfce lacks an archive manager
[...]
> I'm mainly thinking of the following:
> 
> - 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"

And...

  - please don't write it in python.

Let the flames begin ^_~.

	-b

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