on 10/17/2005 12:44 PM Ian MacGregor wrote: > I use gnome 2.10 on FC4 and would like to be able to do the following: > > open nautilus, right-click on a file and choose the "Send To" menu item > - this menu item is what I want to create or install. After choosing > this menu item, nautilus gives me a small dialog that allows me to > choose a directory to send that file to. I choose the directory, click > "OK" and nautilus sends the file to the chosen directory for me. > > If I could learn how to do this, I'd be willing to write lots of > plugins/scripts/extensions and host them on my website so others can > benefit. > > Now, my question is, how do I do all of that in gnome 2.10? Is it > possible to write a script or nautilus extension to get all of that > done? If so, how would a non-programmer, like myself, write such a > script or extension and where would I put it when done? Is there an app > that does all of this? > > I have installed nautilus-sendto from Extras but there is no > documentation for it at all - either in the rpm nor anywhere on the web > - which makes this nautilus-sendto app totally useless, since there is > no way to learn how to write new plugins for it. Nautilus-sendto comes > with one plugin, but it is in C or C++ I think - may as well have been > in greek since I know nothing about source code. It really makes me > angry when people package an app that has absolutely no documentation > for it and nothing available on the internet. > > Anyway, anyone have any idea about how to write such a plugin or > extension for nautilus? > why you just don't contact the author of nautilus-sendto, ( (http://www.es.gnome.org/~telemaco/)? If he wrote one plugin he must know how to do that. you probably may also ask nautilus guys http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/ this page also might be useful... http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/faq.php -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta
