Re: Easy way to add new right-click context menue entries to Nautilus

["Ben Stover" <bxstover yahoo co uk>]

@Emmanuelle:

You recommended the nautilus-actions extension.

But I need this extension in Solaris 11 (and not in Linux/Ubuntu).

I have difficulties to find a way to install nautilus-actions in Solaris 11.

All the "usual" ways to install packages in Solaris fail for Nautilus actions.

I tried for example:

  pkg install nautilus-actions

but it fails.

The following page is somehow confusing:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E24676/gldnz.html

Does that mean that the nautilus-actions extension is already automatically installed with Nautilus on 
Solaris 11?

If NOT: How do I install Nautilus Actions on Solaris 11?

I found no information.

Thank you
Ben

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:38:21 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> Hi;

> On 16 March 2015 at 09:26, Ben Stover <bxstover yahoo co uk> wrote:

> > Maybe this is already somehow possible or can be implemented in the next release?

> Yes, it's already implemented: it's called "Nautilus Actions", which
> is an extension to Nautilus itself ⬠which does the work of exposing
> extension points for this reason. You can also easily write an
> extension yourself that lets you add actions to the context menu.
> Nautilus is already fairly extensible through the extension API, so I
> doubt upstream is going to add command line switches (which are hard
> to even know about) for running random actions with random command
> line arguments.

> All your examples also seem to stem from a poorly integrated system.
> For instance:

>  nautilus -addmenu "Edit with gedit" "gedit %1" FILES

> This is already handled by the application's supported MIME type; I
> can select files and use 'Open With', and select an application to be
> the default for that kind of type.

> The other example:

>  nautilus -addmenu "Extract into folder ..." "p7zip -e %1"  "*.7z
> *.zip *.rar *.tar *.bzip *.gz"

> Is handled fairly well by using File Roller; also, where would the
> output for that command go, in case of error? It's better to have a
> proper application handle this kind of things.

> If it's complicated to handle on Solaris, then you should probably
> talk to the maintainer of the Solaris packaging of Nautilus and
> eventual extensions.

> Ciao,
> Emmanuele.

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