Showing posts with label nautilus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nautilus. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Add new Items to Nautilus right-click menu and Run Gloobus.

As you already know Nautilus is the main file manager in Gnome. Do you know that nautilus is highly customizable File manager? well. now I am going to discuss a good customizable property in nautilus. I already said about it in topic which is add new menu items to nautilus right click menu.

First of all, you want to download a small software call "Nautilus Action". ubuntu users can download via the software repositories using follow command.

sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions


others can download source package or rpm packages as your wish.

If you finished download and install then you can find it on System->Preferences->Nautilus Action Configuration.

Now you can see it's main window like this.




To add new menu item for Nautilus right-click menu click "Add" button. when you get "Add New Item" window as follows add these details call,

Label: menu item name which will be appear in Nautilus right-click menu.
Tooltip: tooltip of the menu item.
icon: which is own by menu item. in this I selected "gtk-help" icon. but you can select your own icon. but remember Large icons will be freeze Nautilus.




hmm... now we want to set path of Gloobus. Add new profile or edit default profile call "Main". set it's name Glooobus or your favourite. but I still set it as Main. now click Edit.

fill folow details.
path: /usr/bin/gloobus this is a location of gloobus main binary files/core.
Parameters: %d




now your configuration is completed. see right click on a item in nautilus. did you get like this?


Monday, June 15, 2009

Gloobus - The future of Linux file managers.

how many of you familiar with MAC OS X?

today I am trying to introduce a new (little bit old :) but new for me) fancy software. it's just Gloobus. Gloobus is a extension for Gnome to visualize Mac OS like File Browser. If you are not familier with Mac OS see this video.

The special fature of Gloobus is supportable of various file extensions. currently it supports to TXT , PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, MP3, OGG, MPG, WMV, XCF file types.




you can see more videos from here.

currently gloobus is under development. now you can download Gloobus 0.4. Still it has many bugs. it is not compleatly embeded to Nautilus. One solution is Clutter which is developing by John Stowers. see his blog.

Follow ubuntu Brainstorm and Gloobus blog for more details.


installation:
download Gloobus.
Extract File.
go to extracted directory.
if your architecture i386 then go to i386. otherwise amd64
install gloobus-preview___.deb then gloobus___.deb (simply double click or use " sudo dpkg -i " in terminal)


Here is mine. :)