add support for nemo file manager

[Paolo Stivanin]

Please could you add support for the Nemo file manager?
Thanks a lot!

(https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo)

[Rik Shaw (rik-shaw)]

Seconded. Would be very nice-to-have. (sorry for the "me to comment" but wanted to add some activity).

[Rik Shaw (rik-shaw)]

I don't understand fully, but is it possible this is being worked on and a forthcoming version of deja-dup will have nemo support?

https://lists.launchpad.net/deja-dup-team/msg00571.html

[Neil Padgett (neil452)]

Using Nemo actions, this is very easy to do and seems to work perfectly. I've attached a simple "nemo-action" file that I use. It needs to placed in /usr/share/nemo/actions. Then right-click on an empty area of Nemo and you should see "Restore missing...", which will launch Deja-Dup's Restore dialogue.

[ben (bschaefer)]

To add recovery of file versions I use the attached nemo_action.

Implementing that request is rather easy and the user base of nemo quite big. I don't see why this is sitting around unimplemented for more than 2 years. Or is there some issue with translations?

[ben (bschaefer)]

This was also requested in nemo's issue tracker.
See: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/202 and https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/980

[Daviddez (daviddez)]

As a new user of Deja Dup I came upon this problem and posted it as a question to Deja Dup, which was quickly aand respectfully answered. https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+question/453569

Although there is the work around of using Nautilus, would be nice if Nemo "out of the box" would handle this.

Thanks - your hard work and great talents are appreciated

[Daviddez (daviddez)]

Have added this as a Nemo bug rather than as a Deja Dup one - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1673004 as follows:

Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon

Deja Dup "restore missing files" works with Nautilus and not Nemo (see https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+question/453569 ).

This is listed as a bug for Deja Dup - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1108726

However since it works for Nautilus and not Nemo this may be a Nemo bug rather than a Deja Dup one and should be fixed there.

Thanks all for your hard, talented and uncompensated work.

[Naël (nathanael-naeri)]

As far as I understand, Déjà-Dup's integration in Nautilus is provided by libdeja-dup.so in /usr/lib/[x86_64-linux-gnu]/nautilus/extensions-3.0 (exact path depending on Déjà-Dup version).

Would this library work the same with Nemo, or has Nemo diverged too much from Nautilus for that? I haven't found where Nemo looks for extensions: is there a similar directory? If there is, someone using Nemo please copy or symlink to libdeja-dup.so and see if it works. There are two things to check: "Restore Missing Files..." and "Revert to Previous Version..."

I have also not found any Nemo documentation about extension development, so I wouldn't know what's the best practice Nemo developers recommend for adding functionality to their file manager. Someone please point me to such documentation if it exists.

In the meantime, the nemo_action tricks mentioned above in comments 3 4 5 look like good workarounds that anyone can place in their /usr/share/nemo/actions/ (system-wide) or ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/ (user-specific). Also see https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/blob/master/files/usr/share/nemo/actions/sample.nemo_action for syntax and documentation if needed.

Note that a previous attempt at adding Nemo support in Déjà-Dup was turned down by the main developer, see https://code.launchpad.net/~kaie/deja-dup/deja-dup/+merge/156644 for reasons. Also Déjà-Dup officially only supports GNOME and Unity (and unofficially MATE but only because their file manager apparently looks for extensions in the same directory than Nautilus does, at least for now).

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

We’ve dropped nautilus integration in favor of an in app browse and restore experience.

[Daviddez (daviddez)]

That's fantastic Michael - Thanks! A much better way to go. In which version will this be live? I'm presently on Linux Mint 19.3 using Version 37.0

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This is in 42.0, which you can play with now, if you grab the snap or flatpak releases.