Submenu items in Nautilus right-click menu

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.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 19 '12 at 08:08

4

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,

edited Jun 19 '12 at 08:08

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answered Dec 04 '09 at 09:29

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If I want to add another submenu into 'Nautilus::sbi' from a different script, How can I do that? I have to get the menu_item first? Isn't it? Otherwise it creates duplicates menu. – Khurshid Alam Jul 08 '17 at 15:26

Submenu items in Nautilus right-click menu

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