A way of letting the bookmarks shown in the thunar left pane be accessible to other apps, for instance a panel plugin for places would be good.
Hm, you don't need thunar for this. Just parse the ~/.gtk-bookmarks file.
Actually I phrased the initial entry wrongly by only mentioning bookmarks, omitting addition existing partitions and removable devices, the trash (network places in the future). Also there was talk a while ago that the old recently-used and the new gtk-bookmarks style places should be abstracted some way so xfce apps consistently show the same thing. And I think you mentioned such an API for the future, I think exported via dbus by thunar. So the feature would resemble gnome-panel's places menu entries which are gnome-vfs internal I think with the implementation not being based on the new gtk-bookmarks
On a related note, I'm working on a panel plugin similar to GNOME's Places menu. For now, it simply parses ~/.gtk-bookmarks. Please see my post to the Goodies-dev mailing list ( http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/goodies-dev/2007-March/000675.html ) and the project's current web page ( http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~diego.ongaro/ ) if you're interested.
Diego, how hard it would be to integrate that with the existing xfdesktop menu plugin, like it is in gnome?
Jani, I haven't looked through the xfdesktop menu code, but it seems like the least painful first step would be to make the places plugin look similar to the menu so that they could be placed side-by-side visually.
right, that's a good first step. One other advantage of making it part of the menu is somewhat less memory usage and startup speed for the panel applets.
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