3 Nautilus-actions is an extension for Nautilus file manager which
4 allows the user to add arbitrary program to be launched through the
5 Nautilus file manager popup menu of selected files.
7 Nautilus-Actions components.
9 Nautilus-Actions has three sort of components:
11 - A user interface, nautilus-actions-config-tool (NACT), which let you
12 manage your actions. With NACT, you are able to create, modify and
13 delete actions, to define menus and submenus, to order and reorder
15 Import/export functions are also managed via NACT.
17 - Nautilus extensions as dynamically loadable plugins. These extensions
18 are automatically loaded by Nautilus when it starts. For now, two
19 extensions are provided:
20 . libnautilus-actions-menu.so is a plugin which takes care of displaying
21 actions in Nautilus context menus;
22 . libnautilus-actions-tracker.so is a plugin which tracks the current
23 Nautilus selection, and sends it in response to a DBus request.
25 - Command-line utilities:
26 . nautilus-actions-new lets you create new actions from the command-line.
27 . nautilus-actions-schemas prints the full GConf schema on stdout.
28 . nautilus-actions-run lets you execute a predefined action, taking
29 into account the current Nautilus selection via a DBus call to the
30 libnautilus-actions-tracker plugin.
32 Nautilus-Actions plugins.
36 Nautilus-Actions itself uses plugins to load menus and actions from
37 the storage space. These plugins are installed in PKGLIBDIR, usually
38 something as /usr/lib/nautilus-actions/.
40 Starting with 3.0.2, the preferred default I/O provider is 'na-desktop',
41 which means that newly created actions and menus will be stored on
42 disk as .desktop files, in accordance with DES-EMA specification [1].
46 Nautilus-Actions also relies on plugins to import actions and menus,
47 and to export them, in several formats.
48 For now, Nautilus-Actions is able to import/export its items as:
53 Nautilus-Actions documentation.
55 Documentation is provided in several formats:
56 - developer documentation is provided as xml and html files, as generated
58 - NACT user's manuals and general documentation is provided as xml, pdf
59 and html files, as generated by gnome-doc-utils, docbook-utils or dblatex
62 [1] http://www.nautilus-actions.org/?q=node/377