Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: rss feeds

[Ryan Muldoon <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

Would this type of thing (eventually) be in the domain of Reef?  I don't
mean to be annoying or anything, but it seems like it would be a more
streamlined/integrated way of doing things.  (Really, I just want to
play with nifty Reef SVBs...)  Grabbing things from websites is great,
but there are a couple slight annoyances conceivable:

1. What happens if another browser clicks on these links?
2. If another application downloads them, does nautilus handle the local
case too?
3. In case of 2, does the file go away, after Nautilus gets the needed
information?
4. Going to a webpage to do local application configuration isn't as
smooth as dynamically grabbing remote data from within a local
configuration dialog.

A web page with listings of everything would most definitely be useful,
but maybe it should be seen as a companion to a reef service.  Down the
road, it would kick ass if most of themes.org became reef-aware....it
would be a lot more convenient.

But, maybe I'm looking at too far down the line. ;-)  I hope that
something of what I am writing is useful at some level....

    --Ryan

On 03 May 2001 14:48:30 -0700, Bart Decrem wrote:
> So we now have 3 types of content that people should be able to install by
> clicking on a link on a web page:
> - Nautilus themes
> - Nautilus scripts
> - RSS feeds.
> 
> Andy's interested in helping out with this and may take a shot at
> implementing Ben's idea over the next few days.
> 
> To begin with, we should organize these 3 pages in a similar fashion, but in
> a second phase (in a month or two?) we should integrate this into a
> nautilus.themes.org type of thing,
> 
> Bart
> 
> Jon Allen wrote:
> 
> > >>Hi Ben,
> > >>
> > >>It sounds like Jon Allen is also interested in helping out with this,
> > >>so I'm bringing
> > >>this thread on-list.
> > >>
> > >>Yes, it'd be great if users could just click on a link in the
> > >>directory to add a news
> > >>feed.  Is that easy to do?  Can the sample code be made to work with
> > >>Nautilus
> > >>somehow?  Is that something you want to help with?
> > >>
> > >
> > >As a different approach than the javascript snippet I posted earlier,
> > >we could create a mimetype. (application/nautilus-rss?) and simply
> > >make small xml files like:
> > >
> > ><?xml version="1.0"?>
> > ><rss_news_channels>
> > >   <rss_channel name="Advogato"
> > >uri=http://advogato.org/rss/articles.xml";
> > ><http://advogato.org/rss/articles.xml> show="false" open="false"/>
> > ></rss_news_channels>
> > >
> > >and put a handler within Nautilus that would add these to the news
> > >feed file.  You could do personal or global install and it would use a
> > >suid helper app to install globally after prompting for root password.
> > >
> > >-b
> >
> > This sounds good.  Another idea: 'Add to News Sites' context menu item in
> > View as Web Page - user right-clicks on news-feed link and selects 'Add to
> > News Sites', Nautilus automagically adds to local list.
> >
> > Regarding nautilus.themes.org suggestion in previous post - I think this
> > will be very helpful.  Themes, rss feeds, etc. would be ideal content for
> > such a site.
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