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#1 2015-04-28 13:52:50
- manuelschneid3r
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How to use the Dekstop Action in desktop files.
I just recognized that desktop files can contain cool actions like e.g shutter:
20 [Desktop Action Redo]
21 Name=Redo last screenshot
22 Exec=shutter --redo
23 OnlyShowIn=Unity;
24
25 [Desktop Action Select]
26 Name=Capture an area of the screen
27 Exec=shutter --select
28 OnlyShowIn=Unity;
29
30 [Desktop Action Screen]
31 Name=Capture the entire screen
32 Exec=shutter --full
33 OnlyShowIn=Unity;
34
35 [Desktop Action Window]
36 Name=Select a window to capture
37 Exec=shutter --window
38 OnlyShowIn=Unity;
39
40 [Desktop Action Active]
41 Name=Capture the current active window
42 Exec=shutter --active
43 OnlyShowIn=Unity; What is their intention? Is there a way to make them more integrated into the desktop, e.g. as a global hotkey(aside form using their native commands)?
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#2 2015-04-28 17:12:10
- jasonwryan
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Re: How to use the Dekstop Action in desktop files.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_entries
Moving to NC...
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#3 2015-04-28 17:36:17
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Re: How to use the Dekstop Action in desktop files.
In gnome-shell, desktop actions appear in the right click menu, when you click application icons in dash or application overview.
Don't know about other DEs or applications.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/deskto … ra-actions
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#4 2015-04-28 20:51:42
- manuelschneid3r
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Re: How to use the Dekstop Action in desktop files.
@jasonwryan Maybe this is hastily. But I find it impolite to move this to NC and post a link that you did not even read. If you did, you would have noticed that the topic goes beyond anything written in this wiki article. I really know what e desktop entry is.
@ooo thank you.
For future readers, from the specs: Application launchers should expose them to the user (for example, as a submenu) within the context of the application. This is used to build so called "Quicklists" or "Jumplists".
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#5 2015-04-28 20:57:10
- ewaller
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Re: How to use the Dekstop Action in desktop files.
I don't know where this thread had been initially, but a move to Newbie corner is not necessarily punitive.
It might be that it is where someone who needs it is likely to find it.
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Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. -- Alan Turing
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#6 2015-04-28 21:18:44
- jasonwryan
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Re: How to use the Dekstop Action in desktop files.
@jasonwryan Maybe this is hastily. But I find it impolite to move this to NC and post a link that you did not even read. If you did, you would have noticed that the topic goes beyond anything written in this wiki article. I really know what e desktop entry is.
The wiki page, which I have read, links several times to the freedesktop spec, which you could have read. Hence, Newbie Corner.
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