5 Starting with 2017-02-21, this application has been renamed to
8 As a consequence, a new Gnome git repository has been created as
9 https://git.gnome.org/filemanager-actions.
11 Please make your own git repository point to this new one.
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17 Nautilus-actions is an extension for Nautilus file manager which
18 allows the user to add arbitrary program to be launched through the
19 Nautilus file manager popup menu of selected files.
21 Nautilus-Actions components.
23 Nautilus-Actions has three sort of components:
25 - A user interface, nautilus-actions-config-tool (NACT), which let you
26 manage your actions. With NACT, you are able to create, modify and
27 delete actions, to define menus and submenus, to order and reorder
29 Import/export functions are also managed via NACT.
31 - Nautilus extensions as dynamically loadable plugins. These extensions
32 are automatically loaded by Nautilus when it starts. For now, two
33 extensions are provided:
34 . libnautilus-actions-menu.so is a plugin which takes care of displaying
35 actions in Nautilus context menus;
36 . libnautilus-actions-tracker.so is a plugin which tracks the current
37 Nautilus selection, and sends it in response to a DBus request.
39 - Command-line utilities:
40 a) installed in PREFIX/bin:
41 . nautilus-actions-new lets you create new actions from the command-line;
42 . nautilus-actions-run lets you execute a predefined action, taking
43 into account the current Nautilus selection via a DBus call to the
44 libnautilus-actions-tracker plugin;
45 b) installed in PKGLIBEXECDIR:
46 . na-print-schemas prints the full GConf schemas on stdout;
47 . na-delete-xmltree deletes a tree from a XML file;
48 . na-gconf2keys.sh migrates menus, actions and user preferences from
51 Nautilus-Actions plugins.
55 Nautilus-Actions itself uses plugins to load menus and actions from
56 the storage space. These plugins are installed in PKGLIBDIR, usually
57 something as /usr/lib/nautilus-actions/.
59 Starting with 3.0.2, the preferred default I/O provider is 'na-desktop',
60 which means that newly created actions and menus will be stored on
61 disk as .desktop files, in accordance with DES-EMA specification [1].
65 Nautilus-Actions also relies on plugins to import actions and menus,
66 and to export them, in several formats.
67 For now, Nautilus-Actions is able to import/export its items as:
73 Nautilus-Actions documentation.
75 Documentation is provided in several formats:
76 - developer documentation is provided as xml and html files, as generated
78 - NACT user's manuals and general documentation is provided as xml, pdf
79 and html files, as generated by gnome-doc-utils, docbook-utils or dblatex
82 [1] http://www.nautilus-actions.org/?q=node/377