Re: GWorkspace.app Feature Request-- Tabbed Shelf

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-06-26 21:43:56 +0000 Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:


> > Fred seems to work on it, and personally I think it's better to put it in 
> > NSWorkspace,
> > so every application will benefit. The code itself shouldn't be 
> > computer-intensive,
> > so I don't think it will hurt the performance (but, a cache for icons could be 
> > good
> > in GWorkspace ?)
>
> I was only toying around with this a bit, as it did look a lot more interesting 
> than getting the rest of the GCC 3.3 warnings out of GUI.

ok :-))

> If Enrico already has an implementation this surely is better than what I have 
> got.
>
> The "thumbnailer" application confuses me a bit. Who would be starting this? I 
> could see GWorkspace doing this but it is hard to see NSWorksapce in that role.

hm well... in my idea, NSWorkspace's role would be only to check if a thumbnail
exists when requested by iconForFile ; if there is a thumbnail, then it reads 
it and
returns it instead of the default icon. If no thumbnail, it returns the default 
icon.
It shouldn't be the NSWorkspace's role to *create* the thumbnail, I think it's 
way
out the its role. So we need a way to create them, and a service could fit, it 
could
also be an automatic action in GWorkspace, or a dedicated menu item in 
GWorkspace
(as this service to create thumbnails of the selected files or the current 
directory seems *very* related to GWorkspace, I don't see much other 
applications using it) ...

--
Nicolas Roard