GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 517267
Add ability for applications to provide custom shortcuts for photos/music/etc
Last modified: 2010-12-10 18:47:05 UTC
Following: http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/02/18/media-at-your-fingertips/ It would be good if applications could provide shortcuts to be added to the list, in specific positions. Eg. Media -> Photos -> F-Spot Gthumb Music -> Rhythmbox Banshee
It would be nice if this worked in nautilus also, so it is not restricted to choosing files, but also just browsing them.
I agree this is a good thing.
Adding pluggability so apps can hook their own shortcut-sources is a Simple Matter Of Programming (tm). First I would like to see these solved: 1. Implement an icon-view mode, as described in bug #141154. 2. Refactor the file chooser so gtkfilechooserdefault.c is not a giant blob of code. Maybe even split out public GtkShortcutsBar and other interesting subwidgets as described in bug #633530 and its dependencies. Finally, the current GtkFileSystemModel allows you to add arbitrary files easily to the view. This is how Search is implemented: the search engine spits out URIs, which then get added to a GtkFileSystemModel. Coupled with an icon view, that would let the "f-spot plugin" to easily add its own photo files to the file chooser.