Nautilus actions should be shown in the File menu of nautilus when nothing is selected

[José Alburquerque]

Binary package hint: nautilus-actions

Hi. In Ubuntu 9.10 when nothing was selected in a browser window, the nautilus actions where available from the "File" menu of nautilus for the folder that the window was displaying. This was a nice functionality to have because it was possible to select the specific folder from the task menu, unselect any selected files in it and then select the action that was to be applied to the folder. I wonder if this functionality could be re-enabled because it was useful.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 11 16:09:55 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus-actions 2.29.1-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.17-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus-actions
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu and its file manager Nautilus better by reporting this bug. However, this bug has been reporter previously, as bug #488612.

I suspect that this has something to do with bug #506125, which is about 'nautilus-actions-config-tool' crashing anytime you launch it. It could be that the same problem also makes Nautilus actions not work in the context menus. Before we can test this bug #506125 needs to be solved this should be done in 2.29.4. However, 'nautilus-actions' in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is only version 2.29.1.

[José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque)]

I understand that you think this bug is a duplicate of bug #488612, but I'm not talking about the context menu (which works fine for me). I am able to right click on a folder/file and see the actions that I've defined for that folder/file.

What I'm trying to report is that in 9.10, when nothing was selected in a browser window, the nautilus actions *were* available from the "File" menu (not the context menu). This is no longer the case in 10.04. I think this is different than what is described in bug #488612 because that bug describes a problem with the context menus. This one is about the actions not being available from the "File" menu of nautilus as in 9.10.

If you think that this functionality is due to bug #506125 I'm willing to wait for that bug to be resolved, but I really don't think this should be marked as a duplicate of bug #488612 until it can be determined that the actions in the context menu and in the "File" menu work the same way.

As I said, on this system the context menu works just fine and I *am* able to see the actions from the context menu so I'm inclined to believe that this bug is unrelated to bug ##488612.

Could you please keep this bug separate until there is certainty that the actions being displayed in the context menu work the same way as the actions being displayed in the "File" menu?