Question

I am trying to write an extension for nautilus, which add an item to the menu that appears when you right-click a file (as shown in image)

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However, I would like to add a submenu to my custom menu item.

I downloaded a nautilus-python package which includes examples of how to write extensions for Nautilus (and so far it turned out to be the best/only documentation i found). In it, is a file called submenu.py, which contains the following:

import nautilus

class ExampleMenuProvider(nautilus.MenuProvider):

    def get_file_items(self, window, files):
        menuitem = nautilus.MenuItem( ExampleMenuProvider::Foo ,  Foo ,   )

        submenu = nautilus.Menu()
        menuitem.set_submenu(submenu)

        menuitem = nautilus.MenuItem( ExampleMenuProvider::Bar , Bar ,  )
        submenu.append_item(menuitem)

        return menuitem,

    # FIXME: Why isn t this working?
    def get_background_items(self, window, file):
        submenu = nautilus.Menu()
        submenu.append_item(nautilus.MenuItem( ExampleMenuProvider::Bar ,  Bar ,   ))

        menuitem = nautilus.MenuItem( ExampleMenuProvider::Foo ,  Foo ,   )
        menuitem.set_submenu(submenu)

        return menuitem,

ps: i didn t add "# FIX ME: Why isnt this working?". that is actually included in the example

The code doesn t work. Even if i take out the second function and leave just the first one, it doesn t work.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

I found the solution.

you need a init function declared.

had to make some variable name change to the example above

import nautilus

class ExampleMenuProvider(nautilus.MenuProvider):
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def get_file_items(self, window, files):
        submenu = nautilus.Menu()

        item = nautilus.MenuItem( Nautilus::sbi , Nau-T , image )
        item.set_submenu(submenu)

        item_two = nautilus.MenuItem( Nautilus::s , www , image )
        submenu.append_item(item_two)

        return item,

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