Re: [Nautilus-list] Please exercise new Scripts feature

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

on 3/20/01 3:58 PM, Ryan Muldoon at rpmuldoon students wisc edu wrote:

> 
>> I tried adding the automatic Refresh but it seemed way too heavyweight
> for
>> the many cases that didn't need it. We'll have to stick to the
> workaround
>> for the moment, and I'll hope to come up with some way for scripts to
>> trigger a refresh on purpose if we don't get real node-monitoring
> stuff in
>> place soon enough.
>> 
> Would it be at all feasible to expose nautilus shell functions in the
> API?  It would be very useful if one could script some of these things
> (like refresh) in a general case.
> 
> One general thing I have noticed with bonobo-based programs that I hope
> will change is that they don't seem to be taking full advantage of
> bonobo.  If more generally-useful things had a public API, then cool
> stuff can be done with scripting general desktop actions.  I don't know
> if this is a problem with the current implementation of bonobo, or just
> a factor of time and not-yet-stable interfaces.  But I would like to see
> (Eventually, anyway) the ability to just pick up my favorite scripting
> language to make fairly complex macros for myself.  Is this way off
> base, or is it an existing goal?
> 
> 
> --Ryan

This sounds like a very interesting and powerful direction that the new
scripts feature could eventually head in. I'm hoping that the feature can be
useful even without this extra work though.

John