RFE: support Thunar as well as Nautilus

[Aaron Whitehouse]

I use Mythbuntu on one of my computers. This comes with Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu, and XFCE instead of Gnome. To use deja dup on this machine, I had to install Nautilus and use Nautilus whenever I want to restore a file.

I realise that the focus of this project is Gnome integration, but it would be great if I could use deja dup properly on XFCE as well. The more of the X/K/Ubuntu family is supported, the more powerful the case for adding it to the default Ubuntu install as well.

[reto ambrosini (reto-ambrosini)]

Same for me

[Chris E (ublinx)]

This would be great, to have.

[Gregg Roemhildt (roemhildtg)]

I also agree. I was looking into how to do it, then I stumbled upon here and realized its not yet supported.

[Gregg Roemhildt (roemhildtg)]

You can run deja dup from command line, hoever:
deja-dup --restore filename.extension

[poopbutttttttttttttt (poopbutt-deactivatedaccount)]

Or you could configure Thunar's custom actions for this specific problem..... I'm not sure why the XFCE team hasn't integrated this already....

In Thunar: Edit > Configure custom actions

Hit the plus and edit this way:

Title: Restore previous version
Description: Restores earlier file versions via Deja-Dup
Command: deja-dup --restore %F

(Upper-case "%F" is important here, it's for selecting all files and giving their paths to deja-dup)

Edit the icon to the deja-dup icon if you want. Check all the boxes in the "Appearance Conditions" tab except for "Directories"

Hit OK.

To restore missing files from a selected directory, hit the plus again and edit:

Title: Restore missing
Description: Restore missing files from the current directory
Command: deja-dup --restore-missing %f

(lower-case "%f" is important, this is for selecting a single directory as opposed to multiple directories)

Again, edit the icon if you like, and check *only* the "Directories" box under the "Appearance Conditions" tab.

There you go, (mostly) seamless integration with deja-dup, without fuss and without Nautilus, in GUI format.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

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