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Bug 480564 - Add "Copy to ..."/"Move to folder ..." to menus
Add "Copy to ..."/"Move to folder ..." to menus
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 679298
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-26 12:00 UTC by Shogun
Modified: 2012-07-03 16:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

Attachments
Patch for add "Copy to..."/"Move to..." to menus (5.46 KB, patch)
2007-09-26 12:00 UTC, Shogun 		none Details | Review

Description Shogun 2007-09-26 12:00:09 UTC 
Hi guys...
I wrote a patch which add "Copy to folder" and "Move to folder" to
nautilus menus.
I miss this feature from Konqueror or Windows Explorer, so I thought it
could be useful.
Hope you like it.
Best regards.
   Shogun
Comment 1 Shogun 2007-09-26 12:00:45 UTC 
Created attachment 96224 [details] [review]
Patch for add "Copy to..."/"Move to..." to menus
Comment 2 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-09-27 11:46:22 UTC 
Please, don't make the nautilus context menus larger than they already are.

Maybe the nautilus-sendto extension is something to look at for the people who want this?
Comment 3 Shogun 2007-09-27 17:58:40 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Please, don't make the nautilus context menus larger than they already are.
> 
> Maybe the nautilus-sendto extension is something to look at for the people who
> want this?
> 

I haven't seen nautilus-sendto extension's source code, but the core method I used is fm_directory_view_move_copy_items (I tried nautilus_file_operations_copy_move too) which is not available in libnautilus-extension and so not usable in any Nautilus extension.
If I'm wrong, can someone tell me how to make that method visible? I spent almost a week on Google but I couldn't figure it out.
If I'm right, the patch I've done it's the only way to do it...
Best regards.
   Shogun
Comment 4 Shogun 2007-12-03 09:54:14 UTC 
Any change to this?
If you want to develope this as an extension, can you make the method

fm_directory_view_move_copy_items

accessible by nautilus-extensions?
Best regards...
   Shogun
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-01-18 01:54:34 UTC 
I think you can find more people to help you by subscribing and writing to nautilus-list@gnome.org.
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2009-10-08 10:53:53 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Any change to this?
> If you want to develope this as an extension, can you make the method
> 
> fm_directory_view_move_copy_items
> 
> accessible by nautilus-extensions?

This would probably be some good use for the nautilus DBus interface. Otherwise you could use GIO directly, but you would lose the integration with the File Operations dialog in Nautilus.
Anyway, I agree with Reinout when he says that the context menu shouldn't be larger than it is now.
Comment 7 William Jon McCann 2012-07-03 16:10:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 679298 ***