Re: the Nautilus context menu

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 05:37, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> The new nautilus has a feature where external plugins can insert menu 
> items in the context menu for files. This is quite powerful and lets us 
> extend Nautilus with new functionality from other apps (e.g. file-roller 
> can add a "create an archive from selected files").
<snip>

I've actually added this now to file-roller.  If people want to try it out, you just need file-roller and nautilus from HEAD.  It does add a global menu item, "Add To Archive...", so maybe I am the first offender of cracking out the menu :)

The file-roller context menu component is pretty cheesy since it just spawns a file-roller process (exactly the same thing the scripts did), but it is a good general example of how other people can go about adding this feature to their apps.  Also, there is a doc in nautilus/docs/nautilus-context-menus.txt that people can look at as well.

Thanks,
James