Re: nautilus-actions that need parameters?

[Steven Brown <steven w j brown gmail com>]

Hi Ross,

You could try using zenity to prompt the user for the directory, and 
then call rsync.

DIR=`zenity --file-selection --directory --filename="$DEFAULT_DIR" 
--title="Please choose a directory..."`;

Cheers.

Steve

Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was hoping to be able to configure a nautilus-action item that would
> take a parameter.  I have my portable music player and my music
> library, and I'm copying from my library to my player.  Often times, I
> want to update the files that are there, but would like to save the
> time of recopying everything.  rsync is perfect for this job.
>
> So I wrote a nautilus-action that can rsync to a fixed directory.  Is
> there any way I can have it prompt the user for a targer when I choose
> "rsync to..." from my menu?
>
> Another alternative would be if I could drag a collection of files to
> a target directory and have nautilus use rsync to do the copy, butit
> seemed easier with nautilus-actions.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Please keep me CCed as I'm not subscribed, thanks!