Google Summer of Code Proposal: File manager integration for Linux.

[Germán Poó-Caamaño]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 21:48 -0500, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 22:09 -0400, Germán Poó-Caamaño wrote:
> > I sent the following proposal for GSoC.  Some personal information
> > was added in the detailed description.
> > 
> > I just read about another proposal about Shell integration (Nautilus
> > and Windows), but it was detailed just for Windows environment. I 
> > hope this does not mean any conflict in any place.
> 
> Are you aware of the work done to integrate TortoiseHg into Nautilus?
> 
> http://tortoisehg.wiki.sourceforge.net/Nautilus

I wasn't aware of that integration. That's great (even if my proposal
gets weak in this part).

> It is still experimental in quality (mostly because of strange behavior
> in nautilus-python itself), and could use quite a bit of work, but a lot
> of the obvious parts have been done.  In fact, I think I borrowed some
> of this initial work from you :)

Nice to hear it was useful :-)

As far as I see, submenus "works" with nautilus-python 0.5; which is not
available on Fedora 8 or Ubuntu 7.10.  It is possible to made a backport
if you want to give it a try.  I did it (back in January in order to
test if another bug were fixed), but currently I'm running Hardy.

Certainly, I would like to see TortoiseHG/Nautilus stable. I will
give it a try tomorrow night.

In my proposal I wrote two goals: one of them was the plugin but the
another one was building a GUI (consistent with the plugin interface),
in order to provide the features that are not possible to get using the
File Manager.

As application I had in my mind something like Giggle, which is a 
GUI for git (http://developer.imendio.com/projects/giggle).

Probably I will need to focus my proposal on Thunar or write a new one.
I would like receive feedback.

Thanks!

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Germán Poó Caamaño
Concepción - Chile