Nautilus-actions 0.3 : a new Nautilus extention

I released a new version yesterday that fixed the most important drawbacks listed in the many comments I had.

Feel free to checkout the announcement news here

All I have to say is that proper control over the right-click menu of a file manager is essential for and Nautilus-Actions fills a very big void in that regard. Although it does not yet work reliably, I can see this becoming very-very useful quite soon.

And a big thank you to the author :)

P.S. Anybody know - how stable is the Nautilus extension API? Are there any public promises on this? It would be sad if nice projects like this had to play perpetual catch-up...

Such corrections are IMO the best help any non-native speaker can get.

For example, the freshmeat.net team makes corrections to the project descriptions submitted by the authors. Since I submitted many descriptions there, it helped me a LOT to improve my own language skills. In fact, I still believe that they taught me a large part of the basic grammar that way. Each time I tried to submit a perfect description, until one day I finally wrote one that didn't require any editing at all.

That said, why aren't the gd.o articles being edited? It's not all that much work, and it would certainly help everyone involved.

I can imagine a number of interesting things that could be done by combining this with GIMP's batch mode.

I actually just installed this extension yesterday. For some reason, it doesn't seem to be working. I can get the program to run and I can save actions, but the actions don't appear on the nautilus context menu. I have tried restarting nautilus and rebooting, but it still doesn't work. Any Ubuntu users out there that have gotten this to work?

There are a few issues with the program itself that are kind of frustrating. Having to use a file selection dialog to navigate to the command is a pain. It would be easier if I could just type in the command and have the program use the shell to evaluate it. The other thing I don't like is having to use root to add new actions. Actions shouldn't be global, each user should be able to have their own. Aside from those small complaints, I think that the extension is a great idea and I would like to see this functionality integrated into nautilus by default. Also, I would like to see an 'Actions' menu added to the menu bar of folders for which there are available actions, that way I wouldn't have to climb up to the parent folder and right click the folder I was previously in.