Nautilus Actions Extra: A Pack Of Useful Scripts For Nautilus 3

Nautilus Actions Extra provides a set of useful scripts for Nautilus 3. Among the included scripts/actions are: advanced search, open file with Gedit as user or root, set image as wallpaper, mount or unmount ISO files, verify checksum, convert image and audio files, batch rename (pyRenamer), add emblems and more.

One of the most interesting scripts included is called "Emblemize2" (you can access it by right clicking on a file or folder and selecting Advanced Actions > Emblemize2), which lets you add emblems to files and folders in Nautilus 3 - a feature that has been removed from Nautilus -, but unlike the script we wrote about a few days ago, you can see the emblems before applying them.

Nautilus Actions Extra requires the Multiverse Ubuntu repository to be enabled (Software Sources, on the Ubuntu Software tab). Also, be aware that it will install a lot of dependencies which are required by the various scripts it comes with.

To install Nautilus Actions Extra in Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04, use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nae-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions-extra
nautilus -q

Update: you can now only install individual actions too. For instance, to install the Emblemize Nautilus action, use:
sudo apt-get install nautilus-emblemize

You can see all the available packages here.

The package provides quite a large list of actions, but you can remove (or reorganize) some of them if you want. To do this, launch Nautilus Actions Configuration Tool as root:

gksu nautilus-actions-config-tool

Then select the action(s) you want to delete, click the delete button, then save the changes (File > Save). The changes should be applied instantly, without having to restart Nautilus.

For bug reports, see Nautilus Actions Extra @ Launchpad.

Thanks to Amr Osman for the tip!

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How To Manually Add Emblems In Nautilus 3

The option to manually set emblems in Nautilus has been removed starting with Nautilus 3.0. Applications can still add emblems (like Dropbox or Ubuntu One) through libnautilus-extension and gvfs but the option to add them via the preferences dialog has been removed from Nautilus.

Fortunately, if you really want to manually set emblems in Nautilus 3, there is a python script that lets you do that.

There are some limitations though:

• you can't see a preview of the emblem you set (you can only see the name)
• only a few emblems show up by default because the script can't detect all the available emblems (but you can add more, see below)
• when removing an emblem, press F5 to refresh Nautilus or else the emblem will continue to show up until Nautilus is restarted/refreshed (this isn't required when adding an emblem so it's probably a bug in the script)

Install Nautilus 3 Emblems Menu python script

1. Install python-nautilus. In Ubuntu, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-nautilus

2. Download the python script from HERE, extract the downloaded archive and copy the nautilus_emblems_menu.py file to /usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/ (To be able to do this, open Nautilus as root: "gksu nautilus /usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/").

3. Restart Nautilus:

nautilus -q

Now when you right click a file or folder in Nautilus, you should see a new item called "Emblems".

4. If you want to add some more emblems, there are a few options available:

a) you can manually add emblem images under the ~/.icons/hicolor/48x48/emblems/ folder and they should automatically show up under Emblems > User (remember to restart Nautilus after this). This folder doesn't exist by default so create it firstly:

mkdir -p ~/.icons/hicolor/48x48/emblems

b) you can add some emblems to the script itself. Open the script as root:

gksu gedit /usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/nautilus_emblems_menuy.py

And add the emblems under "free_desktop_emblems" - you can find the filenames by looking under your current icon theme emblems folder (example: /usr/share/icons/Faenza/emblems/48 - but make sure you're using that icon theme).

c) you can directly add an icon theme emblems folder path under "USER_EMBLEMS_PATH" (example: /usr/share/icons/Faenza/emblems/48 - but make sure you're using that icon theme).

After making changes to the script, remember to restart Nautilus.


If you can help improve this script (like: retrieve the list of all available emblems, add pictures to the menu items, etc.), contact its author (info in the nautilus_emblems_menu.py file).

Thanks to Rmano @ AskUbuntu

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