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[Benedikt Meurer]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>>>>>* File properties dialog doesn't exist yet (might not implement
>>>>>>this).
>>>>>
>>>>>Should be sufficient to popup the file chooser dialog of the file
>>>>>manager -> org.xfce.FileManager.DisplayFileProperties().
>>>>
>>>>Yeah, after all that talk about the DBUS service, I totally forgot
>>>>^_^.
>>>
>>>Nah, hehe. I told you Benny would come up with some cool D-BUS ideas
>>>using Thunar. That having said, how about providing a D-BUS method
>>>for raising the context menu for files? Or would this be an overuse
>>>of it?
>>
>>Maybe I got you wrong here, but I don't see how this would be useful.
> 
> Well, for applications which want to provide the same actions (like
> opening with several different applications, cut, copy, custom actions)
> for files as Thunar provides. Just a thought.

Uhm, that'd be tricky, atleast not for 1.0. But as you can see in
Brian's code, it's not really hard to provide a Thunar-like context menu
using a few lines of thunar-vfs code (and thunarx integration isn't hard
either, you just need to implement a simple interface and grab the list
of providers from the ThunarxProviderFactory).

> - Jannis

Benedikt