First Impressions of Linux GUI Programming

[Mark Roach]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:51:43 -0800, R.Marquez wrote:

> What I mean is that, in Windows Explorer, I am able to select a few
> arbitrary files and/or directories, right click on them and send them
> to an app as parameters.  That way, the app could perform a certain
> job on each one of the selected files.  I've now heard that I'll have
> to wait until KDE 3.2 comes out to be able to do this, since it will
> allow one to define custom context menu
> entries.  I just hope that I will be able to easily write them through
> Python. (I wonder if GNOME will have something similar.)

Here is a trivial example of having a context menu item for a specific
content type in nautilus (using python)...
http://okmaybe.com:8000/~mrroach/edit-directory-listing.zip

-Mark