Xfce Diary

Monday, February 06, 2006

Desktop Actions

I finally came around to fix some long standing issues with the internals of the file launching stuff in Thunar (to sum it up: it was a mess). Now it's cleaned up, and with the new classes it was actually too easy to add support for desktop actions (see the desktop file spec for details) to Thunar (Brian already added support to Xfmedia some time ago).

In addition the Open With actions are now also available if more than one file is selected.

posted by Benedikt Meurer at 00:53

8 Comments:

  • Thunar is really becoming awesome. I use it every day and it works perfectly.

    Keep up the great work !

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6/2/06 23:56  

  • how do you add stuff to the right click menu? like open with apps?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 14/2/06 18:05  

  • Thunar uses the standard .desktop files from $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/ (i.e. ~/.local/share/applications, /usr/local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications) that support the mime type of the selected files (the MimeType key in the .desktop file) and displays them in the context menu.

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 14/2/06 18:14  

  • I just love Xfce! This screenshots are awesome. Thunar is this what I want an what I need. :) I read that Xfce4.4 will be realesed in ~February :) I am very excited about it.
    I just love your work! It's phenomenal!

    By Anonymous Queight, at 16/2/06 23:16  

  • Hey, I can't find any other place to post this, sorry.

    The Thunar website

    http://thunar.xfce.org/

    seems to have a problem. I get this error when attempting to load the page (in Firefox).



    ------
    XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
    Location: http://thunar.xfce.org/index.xhtml
    Line Number 55, Column 64:
    ------

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 24/2/06 15:58  

  • You need to select an icon theme which includes the gnome mime icons (or symlinks to gnome mime icons, as done with the Tango icon theme).

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 1/3/06 00:39  

  • the only icons I get (besides thumbnails of jpgs) are the default fallback icon. Is there something I've done wrong?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1/3/06 00:40  

  • You need to run an XSETTINGS manager (i.e. xce-mcs-manager or gnome-settings-daemon) and select an icon theme that contains GNOME mime icons (i.e. the GNOME icon theme or the Tango icon theme).

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 5/3/06 16:27  

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