Nautilus-actions and Unity Desktop - actions missing from context menu

[kylea]

Binary package hint: nautilus-actions

Installed Nautilus-Actions in 11.04, Created some menu items for the Context menu.

The items appear in the Context menu when a Nautilus Window has focus, but not when a right click is executed on the Unity Desktop

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy nautilus-actions
No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Linux kylea-laptop-lucid 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nautilus-actions:
  Installed: 3.0.5-1
  Candidate: 3.0.5-1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.5-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nautilus-actions 3.0.5-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 19 08:59:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100310)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus-actions
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-12 (6 days ago)

[kylea (kylea)]

BTW same behaviour in the Classic Desktop

[kylea (kylea)]

Has anyone had a look at this yet?

[kylea (kylea)]

Apparently this must have been a bug in Nautilus-Actions - the developer has indicated that 3.1.2 works.

Seeing as 11.10 is planned for 3.0.5 we may need a version update -

I have tried to install the 3.1.2 version via alien on the .rpm - but it fails with libc6 complaining about

/usr/bin/nautilus-actions-config-tool: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/libunique-3.0.so.0)

Here is the note from the developer

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647663
 nautilus-actions | general | 3.0.x

--- Comment #1 from Pierre Wieser <email address hidden> 2011-05-07 05:39:50 UTC ---
Created an attachment (id=187404)
 --> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=187404)
Screenshow of a submenu opened on the desktop

The joined screen has been taken in released Ubuntu 11.04, with the latest
Nautilus-Actions 3.1.2.

As you can see, when clicking on the desktop, the Nautilus-Actions actions
normally appear in the submenu, and Nautilus-Actions submenu is normally
displayed.

Please update to latest versions.
If your behavior persists, please join your actions.

Regards
Pierre

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

nautilus-actions didn't even run the commands I told it to in Natty! Even when I told it to tell me the output, nothing happened.

But I got the latest version from git (3.1.3) installed in Natty and it seems to work fine. (You get a new menu item called Nautilus-Actions with submenus for each action, so it's a bit different from the old one which added the submenus directly to the right-click context menu.)

I installed it with:

sudo apt-get build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus-actions
sudo apt-get install gtk-doc-tools
git clone git://git.gnome.org/nautilus-actions
cd nautilus-actions
patch -p1 < nautilus-actions.patch
./autogen.sh
make

I had to patch the git version because it didn't find a function. The file nautilus-actions.patch is:

diff --git a/src/nact/egg-sm-client-xsmp.c b/src/nact/egg-sm-client-xsmp.c
index 516baf0..198d399 100644
--- a/src/nact/egg-sm-client-xsmp.c
+++ b/src/nact/egg-sm-client-xsmp.c
@@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ sm_client_xsmp_disconnect (EggSMClientXSMP *xsmp)
   update_pending_events (xsmp);
 }

+/* This is defined in /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkwindow.h but isn't being pulled in */
+void gdk_set_sm_client_id (const gchar *sm_client_id);
+
+
 static void
 sm_client_xsmp_startup (EggSMClient *client,
    const char *client_id)

[kylea (kylea)]

I compiled 3.1.2 and I also was able to get Nautilus-Actions to work. There was a minor issue with the auto-conversion of the Gconf configuration to .desktop files. Other than that it works perfectly now

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.