Thunarx API changes

[Olivier Duchateau]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:07:54 -0300
André Miranda <andre42m at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Pablo,
> As stated in thunar-dev at xfce.org, Adam volunteered to update thunarx-python.
> If I correctly understood your suggestion, there was some talks in the 
> past about merging thunarx-python into thunar (I can't recall when or 
> where), but this hasn't advanced. I think it's a considerable amount of 
> effort for little benefit and risky since we are already breaking stuff 
> (port to gtk3 and API changes) =)

Why not to add GObject Introspection in thunarx?

> 
> Cheers,
> Andre Miranda
> 
> On 10/24/2017 12:10 AM, Pablo Roberto Lezaeta Reyes wrote:
> >
> >
> > El 24-10-2017 12:02 AM, "André Miranda" <andre42m at gmail.com 
> > <mailto:andre42m at gmail.com>> escribió:
> >
> >     I would like to announce that the *experimental* work on Thunar
> >     Extension Framework (thunarx) has been completed [1].
> >     As previously explained, besides updating to gtk3, I wanted to
> >     clean the API from deprecated widgets (GtkAction).
> >     This is the last Request For Comments before I push to master.
> >
> >     New abstraction class:
> >     ThunarxMenuItem
> >     obs1: based on Nemo and Nautilus extension libs, not sure if its
> >     name make much sense, specially from ThunarxRenamers
> >     obs2: maybe ThunarxAction would make more sense, maybe not, but of
> >     course the "breakage" would be smaller.
> >
> >     Provider interfaces affected:
> >     - ThunarxMenuProvider — The interface to extensions that provide
> >     additional menu items
> >     - ThunarxPreferencesProvider — The interface to extensions that
> >     provide preferences
> >     - ThunarxRenamerProvider — The interface to extensions that
> >     provide additional bulk renamers
> >
> >     Methods changed:
> >     - thunarx_menu_provider_get_file_actions ->
> >     thunarx_menu_provider_get_file_menu_items
> >     - thunarx_menu_provider_get_folder_actions ->
> >     thunarx_menu_provider_get_folder_menu_items
> >     - thunarx_menu_provider_get_dnd_actions ->
> >     thunarx_menu_provider_get_dnd_menu_items
> >     - thunarx_preferences_provider_get_actions ->
> >     thunarx_preferences_provider_get_menu_items
> >     - thunarx_renamer_get_actions -> thunarx_renamer_get_menu_items
> >
> >     Plugins/components TODO list (marked items are updated):
> >     [X] thunar-advanced-properties ("apr", bundled with thunar)
> >     [X] thunar-simple-builtin-renamers ("sbr", bundled with thunar)
> >     [X] thunar-sendto-email (bundled with thunar)
> >     [X] thunar-trash-panel-applet ("tpa, bundled with thunar)
> >     [X] thunar-user-customizable-actions ("uca", bundled with thunar)
> >     [X] thunar-wallpaper-plugin (bundled with thunar)
> >     [ ] thunar-actions-plugin
> >     [X] thunar-archive-plugin (WIP available in [2])
> >     [ ] thunar-media-tags-plugin
> >     [ ] thunar-shares-plugin
> >     [ ] thunar-vcs-plugin
> >     [ ] xfdesktop
> >     [ ] anything else depends on thunarx?
> >
> >
> > Thunarx-python (or was python-thunarx) which is the base for 
> > Dropbox-thunar plugin rabbitcvs-thunar plugin, Nilfs-thunar plugin, 
> > InSync-thunar plugin.
> >
> > I think that the only one last.
> >
> > An option is to provide what this plugin do in thunar itself binding 
> > for python to thunar or the "same" kinds of tools
> >
> >
> >     What I ask:
> >     - review the API changes and how things were renamed
> >     - review how ThunarxMenuItem are internally translated into
> >     GtkAction (thunar-util.c:thunar_util_action_from_menu_item)
> >     - test!
> >
> >     1 - https://github.com/andreldm/thunar/tree/gtkaction-replacement
> >     <https://github.com/andreldm/thunar/tree/gtkaction-replacement>
> >     2 - https://github.com/andreldm/thunar-archive-plugin
> >     <https://github.com/andreldm/thunar-archive-plugin>
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Andre Miranda
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olivier