GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 125449
Scripts menu not available if no scripts in scripts folder
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:33:43 UTC
If the scripts folder is empty, the File -> Scripts menu does not appear. This is a problem for the following reasons: 1. Unless I happen to see the very last item in the Nautilus docs, I'll never find out scripts exist or are possible. 2. The documentation is wrong/unclear. It doesn't say anything about that menu item not showing up if there are no scripts. This led me to waste time poking around all nautilus menus and property dialogs, trying to find the Scripts menu, to no avail. 3. Given that there is no way to access the scripts folder from Nautilus if you are just starting out, and given that the documentation doesn't tell you what the magical scripts folder is, I have no way of knowing how to add scripts to Nautilus unless I've done it already. Nautilus should either always have the scripts menu available (preferable), or the documentation should explicitly mention two things: 1. The scripts menu won't show up unless you already have scripts. 2. The actual location of the scripts folder, so you know where to put your first script without having to spend 20 minutes scanning Google to find out that it's ~/.nautilus/scripts. Oh wait a minute, that didn't work, this other search result says it's ~/.gnome/nautilus-scripts. Oh wait a minute, that didn't work either, maybe it's this search result, ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts. Oh ok, that worked. Thank you! Raul
*bump*
a) I have a ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts directory created for me when running nautilus for the first time with a clean profile (tested on 2.6) b) "scripts" doesn't show up in the context-menu if you don't have any scripts in the directory _by design_ since it's an advanced user feature. it would clutter up the menu for people who don't need or want to use scripts. As far as the documentation problems for scripts, constructive comments and/or patches can be added to bug 136779. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136779 ***
Reopening. Documentation is updated in Bug 324966, but I also agree that the Open Scripts item should be visible even when no scripts are installed.
Updating version. Lowering priority, since I think the future of our builtin scripting is not clear based on the success of nautilus-actions.
*** Bug 314967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Do scripts even exist anymore?
(In reply to Alexandre Franke from comment #6) > Do scripts even exist anymore? Yes. The only fix to this imho is in docs. Functionality or discoverability of this is not going to be changed.
As a user with both Nautilus and Nemo installed in Ubuntu, I really like the way Nemo fixed this bug: a clear and simple management screen for scripts, actions and extensions.
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