Nautilus-Actions 2.99.0 is out

Hi everybody,

We are pleased to announce the latest unstable release of Nautilus-Actions!
This is the first one of the future 3.0 serie.

What is new in this release ?

This release includes major enhancements.

It implements the .desktop file specifications as described at http://www.nautilus-actions.org/?q=node/377; this new storage format is shareable with most common willing-to desktop environments (KDE, XFCE, etc.)

New properties have been implemented, both in GConf and .desktop files:

• a description of the item
• a suggested shortcut for both action and menu
• profile may specify an execution mode
• command may specify the user which should run it
• the 'accept-multiple-files' flag is replaced with a count selector

Conditions apply now both to actions, profiles and menus. They have been extended to include:

• choose/refuse a particular target environment
• specify a pre-requirement
• only appears if a DBus service is registered
• only appears if an external command displays "true"
• only appears if a process is running

Most of conditions lists may have negated assertions: mimetypes, folders, schemes, basenames, capabilities.

Each type of conditions has now its own tab in the Nautilus-Actions configuration tool user interface.

New parameters have been introduced:

• %b: (first) basename
• %B: space-separated list of basenames (was %m)
• %c: count of selected items
• %D: space-separated list of base directory of each selected items
• %F: space-separated list of selected file names (was %M)
• %h: hostname of the (first) URI
• %n: username of the (first) URI (was %U)
• %U: space-separated list of selected URIs
• %w: (first) basename without the extension
• %W: space-separated list of basenames without their extension
• %x: (first) extension
• %X: space-separated list of extensions

Renamed parameters (%m, %M and %U) are dynamically taken into account when Nautilus-Actions loads the action. They are automatically updated at write/export time.

Bug fixes and closed enhancement requests

• Fix #325523 reported by GrumZ
  (Add the possibility to define a fixed number of file selected)
• Fix #325590 reported by Frederic Ruaudel
  (Removable storage context menus)
• Fix #330610 reported by Olive
  (Permissions as conditions)
• Fix #339533 reported by Frederic Ruaudel
  (Possibility to run the command provided for each selected files)
• Fix #339534 reported by Frederic Ruaudel
  (Possibility to have the list of files without their extensions)
• Fix #566383 reported by Nathan Middleton
  ("Appears if selection contains" options expanded)
• Fix #607820 reported by D.
  (A case for using gvfs-info attributes matching)
• Fix #616477 reported by Thomas Oster
  (Add possibility to filter by folder content)
• Fix #621410 reported by Bruno Guerreiro
  (Nautilus-Actions doesn't respect folders)

New and updated translations

• de (Mario Blättermann, Christian Kirbach)
• es (Jorge González)
• he (Yaron Shahrabani)
• lt (Gintautas Miliauskas)
• sl (Andrej Žnidaršič, Matej Urbančič)

Note that this version may not be fully fonctional. In particular, Nautilus menu plugin may not yet honor all new conditions.

However, and this is the main reason of this unstable release, the user interface should be fully functional.

Note also that due to the renaming of some parameters, actions or menus created / updated with this version may not be compatible with previous, older, ones.

Nautilus-Actions 2.99.0 is available for download at

• http://www.nautilus-actions.org/downloads/
• http://download.gnome.org/sources/nautilus-actions/2.30/

    sha1sum: 25c515d9bd58a060ada5c31d11fe254374af8c37
     md5sum: 70cbc5e1bf2c3182d1b834c331614087

Bug reports are always welcomed at http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

Have a lot of fun with it !