Darren New wrote:
> Note that all the interactions with explorer are via COM.  If you wanted
> to change how Gnome or KDE displays that sort of thing, out of curiosity,
> what
> would you do?  (Serious question there.)  Would you have to change source
> code, or is there some sort of interface like COM or REXX or something to
> allow access?

In Dolphin (the default file browser for KDE), the columns seem to be very 
hardcoded, and it has no plugin system. It doesn't even have built-in 
features for eg. showing image size in pixels.


I don't use GNOME. However Nautilus seems to have a full plugin system and 
it looks pretty powerful:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/platform-overview/stable/nautilus.html.en
http://library.gnome.org/devel/libnautilus-extension/stable/

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