[Thunar-dev] Configure Custom Actions

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jani Monoses wrote:
>>One of the older ideas include integrating xfrun4 into Thunar and
>>letting xfrun4 just call into a running Thunar (using D-BUS), so the
> 
> having this would be really nice. The same dbus support would presumably 
> handle the reuse of an existing thunar process if a new one is lauched 
> right?

Yep.

> But having xfrun4 call into thunar would make xfrun4 dependent on it. 
> Maybe try thunar and if it isn't running fall back to current behaviour, 
> meaning code is duplicated in thunar's copy and the original xfrun4.

Of course, there's a fallback in xfrun4. xfrun4 will first connect to
the session bus and invoke a method in Thunar, if either of these
actions fail, it'll popup it's own dialog.

In fact, the idea is have a Thunar-independent D-BUS interface
org.xfce.RunDialog, which can also be implemented by xffm or whatever
file manager, so non-Thunar users can also benefit from this, once the
other file managers implement the interface.

> Jani

Benedikt