Simple plug-in system for file context menu

[puux]

I would like to add a very simple scripting support in the file context menu.

How it works?

1. Create ~/.gnome-commander/scripts/ directory
2. Create shell script in this place, like as:

!/bin/sh

name: Make tar gz

tar -cf archive.tar.gz $@ -z

3. Open file context menu and click "Make tar gz"

Script properties
The following properties can be inserted in the header of the script:

name - the name of the menu item
term - run the script in a terminal window

Property format: #[prop name]: [value]

Additional features
If you press the Shift key, the script called for each selected file. Otherwise, the script transmitted the names of all selected files as arguments.

Script examples
Duplicate selected files:

!/bin/sh

name: Duplicate

for n in $@
do
cp $n "1_$n"
done

Create file list:

!/bin/sh

name: File list

term: true

echo "Enter file name:"
read list

for n in $@
do
echo "$n" >> $list.txt
done

Move files to trash

!/bin/sh

name: Move to trash

for n in $@
do
mv $n ~/.local/share/Trash/
done

Please tell me which folder to put the script examples in the repository, so they can be used by other people?

TODO

• custom icons in popup menu
• support folders as submenu

[turboscholz]

Hey, this is a cool feature, too. For the moment you can put the scripts into "gcmd-scripts" in the top directory, I would say.

[puux]

Added :)

[turboscholz]

I added the samples. Very nice. :) We could/should add a section in the documentation also for giving the user a hint about the new features. Maybe also on the homepage, where we can link to the sample scripts in the repository.

[puux]

I can help with the Russian documentation , where can I do it ? For the English version, we can take the first post and supplement it .

[turboscholz]

Sure, I'll adapt it and it will be translated later on by the Gnome translation team. Don't worry.

The documentation is located in doc/C/gnome-commander.xml and it's translation is located in the po-files in po/. At Gnome the translation is done by language teams at https://l10n.gnome.org/. There exists also a team for the Russian language which you might contact, they can definitely show you how to start translating. Indeed, you are so good at programming, I would suggest to don't waste your time too much in translating ;) I never worked as a translator, so I don't know which tools to use best, but on the gcmd homepage there is also a short introduction: http://gcmd.github.io/dev.html#trnsl.

[puux]

Thanks for the information and valuable advice . I certainly also prefer to engage in the development , rather than the translation :)