Re: Regarding Nautilus scripts

[Darryl Rees <rees netnam vn>]

Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:

> > yes, based on MIME types, it can add to the context menu everthing it
> > wants.
> >    
>
> Personally, I am not sure if I prefer this, or if I prefer this in
> conjuction to addons.
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> > via a component, yes, activated via the nautilus context menu. This
> > means that you call the specialized app to do the job, instead of
> > overloading with features nautilus.
> >    
>
> I believe that Nautilus will be overloaded with these mime extentions in its
> toplevel menu anyway. And the loading of third party apps that don't do the
> specialized thing asked but loading their full monty, is just wrong for this
> type of thing I wanted to present here. When I need an "mp3 to ogg", I just
> want a small window to popup and only have 2-3 options that I can click (or
> none at all in the dos2unix, or touch) and do the job immediately, without
> having to load full applications that are complex and do more of what I
> really ask.
>
> I believe that MIME integration should be there, but it not the same as an
> addon architecture. It won't work well for everyone, and in some cases it
> might bloat Nautilus' top level menu.
>  
Eugenia,

Mime extensions/handlers are able to add themselves into the *context 
menu*. For example if you right click on an archive file in nautilus, it 
will give you the options.

- Add to archive
- Extract here
- Extract to a subfolder
- Extract to...

The options presented are dependent on the file selected. If you have 
more than one file selected only the operations that are common to all 
files selected are presented. (I'm using the latest CVS version of 
nautilus, I can't recall when all this came in).

I'm pretty sure that this is what you are asking for? Its just, as a 
previous poster mentioned, this stuff takes time to get right. Scripts 
are for quick and dirty, but the architecture is in place to do it 
properly. There is no bloat, and there is no overcrowding of top-level 
menus or context menus.

Cheers,
Long.