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ranoutofusernames

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Registered: 2016-05-11

Posts: 12

7-zip GUI shell extension to XFCE 4.12 right click menus?

Hello,

I wonder if it is possible to achieve to have such a dropdown menu in xfce/thunar or whatever's responsible for handling right click menus in xfce desktops on Debian?

On Windows, 7zip adds a dropdown menu for quick archive handling.

Here's what I mean:

http://s32.postimg.org/rmnpx8fkz/7z_linux.png

My OS:

Linux Debian 4.4.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.4.6-1 (2016-03-17) i686 GNU/Linux

Xfce 4.12 distributed by Debian

I've got p7zip-full installed(v15.14 which will likely become v16.something soon).

p7zip-full:
  Installed: 15.14.1+dfsg-1
  Candidate: 15.14.1+dfsg-1
  Version table:
*** 15.14.1+dfsg-1 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Thanks for considering it.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: 7-zip GUI shell extension to XFCE 4.12 right click menus?

Not exactly like that, no its not possible. Currently, Thunar custom actions is not capable of creating sub-menus.

A member wrote a python script that will popup a menu with specific options that you should be able to modify, but its slightly different from the windows implementation.

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ranoutofusernames

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Registered: 2016-05-11

Posts: 12

Re: 7-zip GUI shell extension to XFCE 4.12 right click menus?

Not exactly like that, no its not possible. Currently, Thunar custom actions is not capable of creating sub-menus.

A member wrote a python script that will popup a menu with specific options that you should be able to modify, but its slightly different from the windows implementation.

Thanks Toz, I'll see if I can come up with something.

ranoutofusernames

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Registered: 2016-05-11

Posts: 12

Re: 7-zip GUI shell extension to XFCE 4.12 right click menus?

I've just realized that custom actions will suit me just fine for a while. I can't believe I haven't knew about it before.

xyzdragon

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 17

Re: 7-zip GUI shell extension to XFCE 4.12 right click menus?

I also wrote myself some custom options, but I don't think it is the right way to let thousands of user come up with a possibly bugged custom extension for extracting files theirselves.
I personally missed the 7zip option 'Extract to *' which extracted all selected archives in respectively named folders. After switching from Thunar to nemo I wrote a shell-script which automatically determines if the archive needs to be extracted into a new subfolder or if it contains a single folder itself. This is even more comfy than on Windows, but some usability is lost because again this means more command line time. Nemo doesn't work exactly well for me either, though, so I guess it's ok.
This is something I noticed rather soon after switching to Linux. The most (usability) bugs are in the GUI. The command line in contrast works pretty well in Linux.

Lengendary

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Registered: 2014-05-26

Posts: 34

Re: 7-zip GUI shell extension to XFCE 4.12 right click menus?

If you want something like that run KDE or install Dolphin.

Debian Stretch, Ubuntu 16.04
https://www.ruinelli.ch/p7zip-gui-for-linux
http://tomtomtom.org/p7zip-gui/

Arch
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/p7zip-gui/

Arch you're damn lucky. XD