Re: My vision of gnome-libs (was Re: GNOME 2.0 meeting summary)

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

>
> > RFC 1: Please look at gnome-selector.[ch], gnome-file-selector.[ch],
> >        gnome-entry.[ch] and gnome-icon-selector.[ch] and tell me what you
> >        think.
>
> I have quite a few comments on this I need to send you.
>
> The general comment I would have though is that I think this is a
> large project. I think it will take several months to finish, and I
> think it should potentially integrate with Nautilus or use some of the
> Nautilus features. I'm basing my time estimate on the fact that
> currently Nautilus is frozen and its hackers are busy, and also the

I rather you just define an API.  People should be able to write their own
file manager that integrates with GNOME without having to use Nautilus or
having to use even a part of nautilus. (depending on the component of
course)  More than likely someone is (and has) written a competing GNOME
filemanager and should have the chance to have access to the spec.

While on that topic, I hope nautilus 1.0 and subsequent releases intend
to put it's desktop items in a neutral area rather than in
~/.nautilus/desktop.

	sri