Re: Integrating Gnome Do with Nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:21 +0100, Peter Stuifzand wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to create a plugin for Gnome Do (http://do.davebsd.com). To
> make it work I need to be able to query Nautilus for its currently
> selected files. That is the files in the currently open windows in
> Nautilus. I already searched on google, gnome documentation and
> browsed the sourcecode, but the only thing I found was
> nautilus-scripts and nautilus-extensions. I wasn't able to find a way
> to get the filenames this way.
> 
> Is their a way that I can query the names of these files using D-Bus,
> clipboard or some other way?

The only way you can do this is with a nautilus extension. If you create
a NautilusMenuProvider it will be given the list of selected files.