[Thunar-dev] actions menu

[Auke Kok]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> abo wrote:
>
>> bones!
>>
>> i've just joined the list and i've searched about this feature with no
>> succes, but im not really sure if you discussed this on irc or any other
>> place. so excuse me if this is a known requested feature.
>>
>> my i-cant-live-without feature is an actions menu. a simple right clic
>> option that allows you to execute whatever script/program/borg you want.
>>
>> i think this gives you all functionality you want and let users the
>> ability to increase features as they need.
>>
>> this is not a new feature at all:
>> http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/
>>
>
> It's an interesting idea and very powerful. Definitely advanced usage 
> though, so perhaps not for an 1.0 version. We would make many people 
> very happy if we did add scripting, I'm sure and if at all possible it 
> does make sense to emulate nautilus' scripting environment. This 
> wouldn't be very high on my personal list of things to implement fora 
> simple file manager, though. 



Definately plugin material too. Plugins are out of scope for 1.0 but we 
should keep them in mind for 2.0 and later releases.

sofar