Re: Adding shortcuts support to Nautilus

> From: "Gregorio" <[email protected]>
> To: "pwieser" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "nautilus-list" <[email protected]>
> 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: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > 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

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