On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 22:31 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > This new project gives you the option to open a terminal in any nautilus > > window instead of just on the desktop. The desktop menu will open a > > terminal just like it did before. However when you open a terminal from > > nautilus window showing "~/folder-x/folder-y/" your terminal will be > > opened to the same directory. This is something new that I think makes > > this option even better. > > By "Desktop Menu" do you mean right-click, or do you mean the main menu > thing then system tools, and finally terminal? Yes, go ahead and try it out. > Just out of idle curiosity (or maybe not so idle) how many lines of code > is it really to add one more item to the default desktop right click > context menu? Is it not something that can be modified or extended on a > live system w/out a complete gnome or nautilus recompile? Which system > is it that drives the context menu? Gnome or Nautilus or Metacity > or.... ? AFAIK it's nautilus that drives this, the beauty and perhaps the danger of this is that you could open up any thing you wanted from something like this. A lot of this is boiler-plate code, there really isn't too much to this. And there are python bindings to do all this too, however I don't know if we package those either. [clarkbw@rhbw src]$ wc *.c *.h 314 737 8064 nautilus-open-terminal.c 58 206 1583 open-terminal.c 55 223 1853 nautilus-open-terminal.h 427 1166 11500 total Cheers, ~ Bryan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
