Re: How to contribute?

[Robin Hahling <robin hahling gw-computing net>]

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:02 +0200, Robin Hahling wrote:

>> A friend of mine and myself started to developp an application that
>> would copy files using the principle of queue and with the ability to
>> pause a copy. But later on, we realised it would be much better if we
>> can add this feature to nautilus as it already does lots of things
>> like copying from an ftp server or handling the dragNdrop. Moreover,
>> it would be more integrated to the system of someone who uses gnome as
>> a DE.
>> 
>> So, my question is: is it possible to developp it as u plugin? (I
>> think this would cause lots of problems) Or, is it possible to
>> implemente those features in Nautilus directly and be part of nautilus
>> developpers? We would love to participate!

>No, plugins (currently extensions and nautilus scripts) has no way to do
>this. They are very much limited in how they can extend nautilus.
>
>So, such a feature would have to be made as a change to the core of
>nautilus. Don't let that scare you though, things are not necessarily
>easier just because you can do it in a plugin, often quite the reverse
>is true.
>
>So, just download the nautilus code, fire up your editors and start
>hacking.

>I'm personally a bit busy with non-nautilus work currently, so things
>are a bit slow in nautilus land atm. I do my best to look at patches
>when i can, and so do the other developers, but don't be discouraged if
>there are some delays in responses.
>
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Ok thanks for your answer.
So, as you said, we'll just download the nautilus code, fire up our editors and start hacking.
This will be done during the july-august period.

Robin Hahling - robin hahling gw-computing net
Kevin Gillieron - kevin gillieron gw-computing net