nautilus

I didn't think this would be as tricky as it turned out to be, but here I am. I'm trying to write a Nautilus script in Python to upload one or more images to Imgur just by selecting and right clicking them. It works well enough with both single images and multiple images - as long as they don't contain any whitespace. In fact, you can upload a single image containing whitespace, just not multiple ones. The problem is that NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS returns all the selected files and directories as a space separated string. So for example, it could look like this: print os.environment[

I'm using Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu. My app offers encryption services and I want to integrate it into the client OS. My question is: Is there a way to put my app programmatically into the context menu (right-click options) of the file manager, irrespective of the file manager a person is using? I would also like to know if there is any way I could do this on Windows explorer as well. But my guess is that it involves adding values to the registry and can be easily achieved. So, is there a general solution to adding context-menu support on linux file managers, and also please correct me if I'm

I'm playing around with get_iplayer (fantastic) it's running every few hours to grab any new episodes of whatever.... After it has finished grabbing anything new i'd like to change the emblem of ~/Videos to add a plus or star (nautilus emblem preferably) Do i go about this via nautilus? Do i need to change something in gnome-config? I'm sure this can't be FS level? Cheers for any links and advice. gvfs-set-attribute ~/Videos -t stringv metadata::emblems new urgent gvfs-set-attribute -t string $FOLDER metadata::custom-icon file:///home/user/path/to/icon.jpg There's a package called libnautilus