info about writing a Dolphin plugin

Lisa Vitolo syn.shainer at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 18:13:58 BST 2012


I will have a good look at the code and then submit a patch when ready :)
Thanks for your help!

2012/7/17 Daniel Kreuter <d.kreuter at fh-bingen.de>
>
> You can add a new entry in the panel where the drives are listed. The only
> thing you have to do is to check if it's a device or a bookmark (aka places
> in Dolphin).
>
> But don't ask me where to look exactly (I'm quite new to dolphin), but a
> first start would be the DolphinContextMenu class, because it handles the
> right click context menu thing.
>
> Another possibility is to add it to the Tools menu as you already
> suggested, but this would not be as intuitive as in the panel where the
> devices are located. The first approach has the advantage, that you know
> the device because it is selected and you don't need the user select it
> later in a dialog.
>
>
>
> Dolphin has no plugin system as Alex already mentioned.
>
> Hope this helps a bit and I'm not too wrong
>
>
>
> So long
>



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