Re: 3.22 Context Menu to Compress w/ File Roller like 3.16

[António Fernandes <antoniojpfernandes gmail com>]

Hi Narcis

A quinta, 15/02/2018, 07:48, Narcis Garcia <informatica actiu net> escreveu:

With Nautilus 3.22 I've found usability loss too, because adding
context-menu actions is not so easy as before (through MIME).

Before this version, only by installing .desktop launchers that
associate MIME types, user had more direct actions in context submenu
"Open with...".
Some of my projects like Matromu, xhash, Ribildor and Refafit are
affected by this usability issue.

The "open with..." Actiob was not removed. Instead it was changed from a submenu into a dialog, which provides more options and allows searching for the app by typing.

In a package installation, how it's supposed be added context menu
actions at same level as "Compress" or "Extract here" 

Those used to be added by a nautilus extension provided by file-roller.

I don't know if Debian shipped that extension in thefile-roller package or as a separate package.

The compress action was removed from that extension because it duplicated the new compress action which is now built-in.

I guess you could workaround this by installing an older version of the file-roller extension, or reverting that git commit which removed the compress action and compiling it from source.

The safe way, though, is to open file-roller directly, although not as convenient. Or Nautilu scripts.

El 15/02/18 a les 02:46, mark via nautilus-list ha escrit:
> Hi,
>
> Back in Gnome 3.16 (Debian Jessie), right-click Compress would use File Roller. I liked this because it was easy to add a password to a ZIP file.
>
> Gnome 3.22 (Debian Stretch), you are using something else which lost this functionality.
>
> I know I can use Nautilus-Actions to work around this, but it's not as clean as re-pointing the existing Compress menu.
>
> I have searched and not found a a way to hack this.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
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