[Thunar-dev] Writing a "Semantic" plugin for Thunar

[Robert Rothenberg]

Hello,

I would like the ability to tag arbitrary files with keywords, and to
browse the filesystem by keywords rather than directories.

An extension for tagging files seems straightforward to write. (Before
I embark on this, is anyone else working on a similar project?)

However, from reading the section on Thunar extensions, it looks like
there is no way to implement a keyword browsing interface from within
Thunar. That would still require a separate application. Am I correct
in assuming that?

Regards,
Robert

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Hey,

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:45:42 +0000

Post by Robert Rothenberg
Hello,
I would like the ability to tag arbitrary files with keywords, and to
browse the filesystem by keywords rather than directories.
An extension for tagging files seems straightforward to write. (Before
I embark on this, is anyone else working on a similar project?)

It can be done e.g. by registering context menu actions and/or an
additional page in the file properties dialog.

Post by Robert Rothenberg
However, from reading the section on Thunar extensions, it looks like
there is no way to implement a keyword browsing interface from within
Thunar. That would still require a separate application. Am I correct
in assuming that?

That's a correct assumption. Plugins can register

- context menu actions (like the archive plugin does)
- additional pages in the file properties dialog (like the exif
plugin does)
- new menu items in the Edit menu (the custom user actions plugin
does this)
- additional renamers (like the thunar media tags plugin does for
media files with meta data)

and that's it at the moment.

- Jannis
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