On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM, K. Piche <kpiche@rogers.com> wrote:
Hey everyone,
For fun I hacked together a Nautilus extension to add an extra file property page for pacman packages. I've got a binary package cleverly called nautilus-pacman available at http://kpiche.archlinux.ca/repo/nautilus-pacman-0.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz or use my repo:
[kpiche] Server = http://kpiche.archlinux.ca/repo
The package also adds a mime type and a mime type icon. Install then logout & login or run 'nautilus -q'.
No source yet as I wish to scan for embarrassments first. :)
Some notes and things I found out: - It's not amazingly useful since most of us probably use the CLI and don't manage packages with a file manager. Could add some "Install" context menus later perhaps. - The property page is ugly, sorry. not sure the best way to display the other package attributes just yet - No i18n - The extra mime bits are not tied to Nautilus and should be in a general package - libalpm could use a pkgconfig file for use in autoconf. - You can't initialize, release, then initialize the library in the same instance of a program. Took a while to find those SIG11's. - Curious if we have a logo that would look better as an icon, maybe an outline?
When you do get around to releasing the source, you should post it to the pacman-dev list, and we could get it included in the contrib/ directory of pacman. Secondly, mind posting a bug report regarding the init/uninit/init bug?