Re: Global Desktop Items: A proposal

["Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu randomink org>]

On 4/19/07, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com> wrote:
> Le mercredi 18 avril 2007 à 02:14 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am working on enhancing some of the "deployment friendly" stuff in
> > GNOME as a part of my Google SoC, and one of the things I am working
> > on is support for predefined global items on the desktop. To make my
> > current goal clearer, here's a sample use case (stolen shamelessly
> > from a doc by my mentor, Federico Mena Quintero).
> >
>
> > Comments/suggestions/brickbats would be highly appreciated :)
>
> Well, you could use and/or integrate a patch we have been using in
> Mandriva package for nautilus : for a very long time, we have been
> putting merging dynamically .desktop from a system wide directory,
> mostly for hot pluggable devices, like webcam, to put a launcher for
> ekiga (this is an example).
>
> Patch for this is available at
> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/nautilus/current/SOURCES/nautilus-2.5.1-dynamic.patch?revision=5839&view=markup
>
> it is using symlink to be able to handle files disappearing when
> nautilus is not running but anyway, it could be used as a basis or
> anything for your work.

Thanks a ton for that :-)
You made my work a lot easier.

Cheers,
Sayamindu


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