RE: Adding shortcuts support to Nautilus

["Gregorio ." <devim outlook it>]

Hi,

Don't worry, I think this procedure isn't intuitive and natural. Anyway the situation is a little bit changed, I'm collaborating with maintainers to give to the users the possibility to set custom shortcuts to launch the scripts in the scripts folder of Nautilus.
This is different from my original idea (a general shortcuts support) but I think this new feature is better (and the final result is "the same").

Gregorio

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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:32:10 +0100
From: pwieser trychlos org
To: devim outlook it
CC: nautilus-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Adding shortcuts support to Nautilus

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From: "Gregorio" <devim outlook it>
To: "pwieser" <pwieser trychlos org>
Cc: "nautilus-list" <nautilus-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 1:26:02 PM
Subject: RE: Adding shortcuts support to Nautilus

I've Nautilus-Actions but I don't know how to set shortcuts, can you tell me how I can do this?

Hi Gregorio,

Sorry, I unfortunately missed your message :(

From a N-A point of view, the feature relies on Gnome global shortcuts and the DBus:

- define your action (e.g. with Nautilus-Actions Configuration Tool)

- define your global shortcut via the Gnome tool [1], setting the launcher as "na-run --id=<action_id>"

Then, and as long as Nautilus is running and the plugins are loaded, the shortcut will run the "na-run" program, which asks through DBus To Nautilus for the current selection, and applies it to the specified action.

I must admit that I have not tested this feature very thoroughly. So a bug is of course always possible.

Regards

Pierre

[1] https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-shortcuts-set.html.en

Thanks,
Gregorio

> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 19:23:32 +0100
> From: pwieser trychlos org
> To: nautilus-list gnome org; devim outlook it
> Subject: Re: Adding shortcuts support to Nautilus
>
> > Yes, I know it, but it doesn't support shortcuts. This application
> > allows the user to insert custom entries in the right click context
> > menu.
> > I'm talking about keyboard shortcuts.
> >
> > Anyway this feature in my opinion should be inside the main code of nautilus.
>
> Hi Gregorio,
>
> I do not manage Nautilus, so I do not have any relevant opinion on whether such
> a feature should be or not in main code. But I think Nelson was right
> to point you to Nautilus-Actions for several (obviously good ;)) reasons:
>
> - Nautilus-Actions does implement desktop-global keyboard shortcuts through a
> DBus interface; it is surely not a widely tested feature, but at least it is
> implemented
>
> - not only the syntax you describe is already implemented - and a feature much
> more tested that the previous one - but it relies on DES-EMA spec which has
> been discussed with other maintainers, so that defined actions may be shared
> between file managers
>
> - the last evolution wants Nautilus-Actions become FileManager-Actions, and the
> plugins themselves be useable by other file managers (for now, tested with
> Nemo - easy !)
>
> - last but not least, this application would take advantage of new developer(s)
> with new ideas; it is widely used and it is sad I have not enough time to
> maintain it as it should. Your review and participation would be more than
> welcome
>
> Regards,
> Pierre