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bassmanitram / actions-for-nautilus

An extension to the Gnome "Files" file manager that allows you to add arbitrary actions to the file selection context menu.
Apache License 2.0
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How to add icons to specific new commands? #28

Open hamad12a opened 1 year ago

hamad12a commented 1 year ago

I commonly use this extension for VS Code; it would be better if I see the editor's icon in the context menu.

bassmanitram commented 1 year ago

Firstly thanks for using this and for this suggestion. I have been thinking about this myself and will put it on the roadmap as a priority item. I'll report progress via this issue.

bassmanitram commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately, it APPEARS that while icon is an allowable argument to the Nautilus.MenuItem constructor and an accessible property of the resulting instance, it is currently ignored. This nautilus-python issue, while created 3 years ago, appears to confirm that in a comment by the maintainer from only two months ago. See the source link that Jan provides in his comment.

On looking at a full context menu in Nautilus I note that there are no icons displayed even for entries not associated with A4N. Can you confirm that in your installation? If you do see non-A4N icons, what version of Nautilus are you using?

hamad12a commented 1 year ago

GNOME nautilus 42.2 I do see VS Code icon in the context menu for the files; after setting VS Code mime-types for json, plain-text, cpp, etc., however, the context menu of the folders does not show open in VS Code; any directory is type inode/directory but Nautilus does not allow associating for folders a default application such as VS Code (if not tell correct me). That's why I came here

hamad12a commented 1 year ago

It might be necessary to hack the source code of Nautilus and build it from scratch

bassmanitram commented 1 year ago

Um - yeah - knock yourself out :D