[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15454] Provide a collection of preinstalled custom actions, which can be enabled

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15454

Andre Miranda <andreldm at xfce.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Andre Miranda <andreldm at xfce.org> ---
(In reply to alexxcons from comment #0)
> You would like such a feature ?
Are you asking this to me? :)

Well, I mostly disagree, we can for sure ship some more actions, the idea to
make them disable by the default is a very good one, but there many from the
wiki that doesn't make sense to the average user IMHO.

"Finding files inside the current/selected folder with
catfish/gnome-search-tool" - catfish at least is now an official project.
"Working with archives (tar, gzip, etc)" - What about TAP?
"Playing music files" - xmms? what about mpc, clementine, vlc, Gnome music and
Spotify? I think that's the reason we have "Open with".
"Burning an ISO file to a CD" - Same
"Viewing images" - Same
"Converting PNGs to JPEGs" - What about gif, webp, tiff...?
"Losslessly Rotating JPEGs" - Image viewers can do that, or just open the file
with Gimp
"* as root" - Not sure it's a good idea to ship this, anyone that cares to do
stuff as root will do it in a terminal or is savvy enough to create the custom
action.
"Creating a symbolic link" - What about drag + ctrl + shift?
"Saving the selected file/folder's pathname to the clipboard" -  When copying a
file/folder and pasting in a text field we get the full path
"Setting an image as the desktop background" - We already have a plugin for
this.
"Viewing the disk usage of the current directory" - Folder properties already
shows this info
"Using 'nano' text editor in a terminal" - What about vim, visual studio code,
atom, intellij...?
"Download subtitles with periscope" -  Why not download stock prices, format
them as csv and open Calc?

My point is: most of them are specific to few users, even with them disabled by
default they would clutter the actions list. I think makes more sense to put in
the dialog something catchy like "Custom actions are very powerful if you are
creative. Have a look at what is possible." that would be link to this wiki.

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