Gnome Nautilus Extensions
the quick but hopefully clean tutorial
... in pure C.
A simple Example
So you want to write a simple nautilus extension but do not know where to start? First of all: Download my very simple example to get you started. It might even be the only thing you need.
tar xzf simple-nautilus-extension.tgz
cd simple-nautilus-extension
make
become root or give yourself write access to the
/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/
folder and:
make install
For debugging and getting the actual output on the commandline it
helps to kill nautilus and manually start it from the Terminal with
nautilus
again.
For the example I basically plugged everything from
Nautilus Extensions together in a project, wrote a simple
Makefile and compiled it. So now you find only two files in there:
the Makefile itself and a plugin.c which
are pretty much explained by the link above.
To keep things short I will stop here so you can play around with the example and let the source speak for itself.
I created this tutorial and example because I needed a starting point to port the git plugin git-cheetah to nautilus.
Links
Here are the resources I used to assemble this example:- Nautilus Extensions - This seems to be the original reference specification
- Thread on the mailinglist - A little insight about the documentation situation
- Extending Nautilus - A page on the Gnome Website about Nautilus Extensions
- Nautilus Extensions - Another page from the Gnome Website about Nautilus Extensions
- nautilus-vcs - The official example of a nautilus extension in C (although not compiling for me)
- The GTK+ tutorial - A good resource about general GTK programming