App idea

[Benedikt Meurer]

daniele favara wrote:
>>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. 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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>>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"
> 
> it would be really nice if you could contact the xarchiver developer
> and merge your energies, that archive manager will probably be the
> default for Xubuntu, he's happy  to write even the thunar plugin.
> 
> It has mainly all the features you listed here, and the devel is even
> working on iso support.
> 
> you can get the last version from here:
> 
> http://www.dsslive.org/xubuntu/ubuntu/pool/xubuntu/archive-managers/xarchiver/0.4/
> 
> this evening there should be a bzr|svn repo too.

Yep, I had talked to Giuseppe Torelli already, he's a nice guy. I think
we should really avoid to come up with just another archiver. But
instead, we should help Giuseppe Torelli with xarchiver (i.e., some code
merge from file-roller would be nice to support non GNU tar, etc.).

> ciao.

Benedikt