Add package to Xfce

[André Miranda]

As long as the code is very very simple, I'm ok with adding a fallback into
Xfdesktop.
Merge requests are welcome.

Cheers,
Andre Miranda

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:00 AM <contact at draugeros.org> wrote:

> While I agree that overall, it would be best to implement this right
> inside Xfdesktop, I was trying to offer the suggestion with the least
> amount of work involved. As for the Python, I have nothing against
> translating it to C/C++.
>
> I don't know of any file manager APIs that exist. xdg-open is the best
> thing I could find, and probably should be used anyways (unless said API is
> cross-file manager) since it opens the system's default file manger.
>
> On May 28, 2020 6:01 AM, Andrzej <andrzejr at xfce.org> wrote:
>
> Since it only affects xfdesktop, IMHO the best solution would be to
> implement this fallback within xfdesktop itself. No overhead of python
> (would likely be more than thunar itself), no extra executables and DBus
> hooks. On the other hand, we could just keep this feature optional and have
> it available when Thunar is installed. Nothing wrong with that either.
>
> Are there any standard file manager APIs? I imagine "org.xfce.FileManager"
> was added because nothing suitable existed at that time.
> Xfce4-desktop-service is falling back to running xdg-open.
>
> Andrzej
> On 27/05/2020 11:57, Sean Davis wrote:
>
> Hey there Andre,
>
> It's not uncommon for users to choose another file manager over Thunar,
> and we even promote it as a standard use-case (see Preferred Apps having a
> default file manager option).
> It's far less common for users to use alternative desktop applications or
> services, and I think that's what this project identifies and tries to
> support.
>
> I'm not opposed to adopting this as an Xfce project, as I think there is a
> real, albeit smaller, need for this kind of project.
>
> Thanks!
> Sean
>
>
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