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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Modifying the right-click Actions menu for files
From:       Manuel Amador <rudd-o () amautacorp ! com>
Date:       2005-04-06 15:52:04
Message-ID: 1112802724.1087.9.camel () master ! amauta
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You might want to take a look at python-inotify.  It comes with a
cmdline app called, aptly, inotify, which will watch a folder for
events.  It's more than appropriate, and you can use the code and reuse
the module to run PyKDE code against the changed files.

El lun, 07-03-2005 a las 20:43 +0100, Kristian Sørensen escribió:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 18:56, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Monday 07 March 2005 10:24, Kristian Sørensen wrote:
> > > I am looking to implement the Apple-feature of having "active folders".
> > > Active folders allows you to attach a script to a folder, such than when
> > > you drop a file in it, the script is run on this file.
> >
> > cool
> >
> > > Thus I need to add an "Action" to enable the folder to be
> > > "active" (monitored),
> >
> > how will you be monitoring these folders? via another process with
> > KDirWatches?
> I was thinking about taking a pragmatic approach, simply making a small daemon 
> doing simple monitoring (detecting new files) - But I'll certainly have a 
> look at KDirWatch one of these days. Thanks for the tip! :-)
> 
> > > and then a menu item to customize which script to be
> > > run on new files in the folder.
> >
> > we already support putting an action in the .directory file in a directory
> > to create directory-specific features in the Action menu. perhaps you could
> > use that?
> Sounds like it! But how does it work? I've crated the dir $HOME/Desktop/Action 
> and made the directory $HOME/Desktop/Action/.directory - and in 
> the .directory I've placed the small script, Touch:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> touch /tmp/TEST_FILE
> 
> But nothing shows up in the Actions menu when right-clicking the directory... 
> Can I have done anything wrong? (The script IS executable ;)
> 
> > as for a menu item to set which script... it would be very nice to have
> > such a GUI for servicemenus in general. something i've wanted to get around
> > to doing for some time now... =/ so that when you right click on
> > file/folder you get an entry in the Actions menu (or section, if there is
> > no menu) to "Define an action" which then pops up a little dialog which
> > lets you set some basic things and creates the .desktop or .directory file
> > for you.
> What is the difference between .directory and .desktop? It could be cool to 
> implement - but I am not much of a GUI programmer - normally I do kernel 
> stuff, so this is just for fun. But it would be cool though :)
> 
> KS.
> 
> -- 
> Kristian Sørensen
> E-mail: ipqw@users.sf.net, Phone: +45 29723816
> 
> 
-- 
Manuel Amador <rudd-o@amautacorp.com>
Amauta
 
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