App idea

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>there is no thunar plugin structure - and there will not be one for a
>>>while - this will be a whole other venture that will be outside of
>>>thunar in general.
> 
> Does this really need any kind of thunar plugin anyway?  I mean, with
> desktop actions, you can just register "Add to archive", "Create
> archive", "Extract to", etc. in the .desktop file, which will just
> appear in thunar's context menu for tar/bz2/gz/zip/etc. files.
> 
> Though I suppose you want "Add to archive" and "Create archive" to show
> up in the context menu for all files and directories.  Not sure how that
> works in the desktop action framework.

Attached is the sample archiver plugin, that uses file-roller. If you
look at the code there's some "smartness" in there, that could not be
done with desktop actions.

> 	-brian

Benedikt
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