DEPRECATION NOTICE
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Starting with 2017-02-21, this application has been renamed to
FileManager-Actions.
As a consequence, a new Gnome git repository has been created as
https://git.gnome.org/filemanager-actions.
Please make your own git repository point to this new one.
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Nautilus-Actions
Nautilus-actions is an extension for Nautilus file manager which
allows the user to add arbitrary program to be launched through the
Nautilus file manager popup menu of selected files.
Nautilus-Actions components.
Nautilus-Actions has three sort of components:
- A user interface, nautilus-actions-config-tool (NACT), which let you
manage your actions. With NACT, you are able to create, modify and
delete actions, to define menus and submenus, to order and reorder
items.
Import/export functions are also managed via NACT.
- Nautilus extensions as dynamically loadable plugins. These extensions
are automatically loaded by Nautilus when it starts. For now, two
extensions are provided:
. libnautilus-actions-menu.so is a plugin which takes care of displaying
actions in Nautilus context menus;
. libnautilus-actions-tracker.so is a plugin which tracks the current
Nautilus selection, and sends it in response to a DBus request.
- Command-line utilities:
a) installed in PREFIX/bin:
. nautilus-actions-new lets you create new actions from the command-line;
. nautilus-actions-run lets you execute a predefined action, taking
into account the current Nautilus selection via a DBus call to the
libnautilus-actions-tracker plugin;
b) installed in PKGLIBEXECDIR:
. na-print-schemas prints the full GConf schemas on stdout;
. na-delete-xmltree deletes a tree from a XML file;
. na-gconf2keys.sh migrates menus, actions and user preferences from
GConf to files.
Nautilus-Actions plugins.
I/O Providers.
Nautilus-Actions itself uses plugins to load menus and actions from
the storage space. These plugins are installed in PKGLIBDIR, usually
something as /usr/lib/nautilus-actions/.
Starting with 3.0.2, the preferred default I/O provider is 'na-desktop',
which means that newly created actions and menus will be stored on
disk as .desktop files, in accordance with DES-EMA specification [1].
Importers/Exporters.
Nautilus-Actions also relies on plugins to import actions and menus,
and to export them, in several formats.
For now, Nautilus-Actions is able to import/export its items as:
. GConf schemas;
. GConf dump;
. XML;
. .desktop files.
Nautilus-Actions documentation.
Documentation is provided in several formats:
- developer documentation is provided as xml and html files, as generated
by gtk-doc;
- NACT user's manuals and general documentation is provided as xml, pdf
and html files, as generated by gnome-doc-utils, docbook-utils or dblatex
tools.
[1] http://www.nautilus-actions.org/?q=node/377