Service Menus with Dolphin

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Snowhog replied

Feb 03, 2010, 01:05 AM
Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

Click, drag, and drop isn't sufficient
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ScottZ replied

Feb 03, 2010, 12:19 AM
Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

I am trying to figure out how to make a service menu that will copy files from one split to the other.
Any ideas?
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Rog131 replied

Sep 26, 2009, 08:37 AM
Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

Two click wallpaper change
This was working with the Kubuntu 9.04 / KDE 4.2.4, Kubuntu 9.10 (a6) / KDE 4.3.1

This is linking to the > Topic: How to change desktop background from dolphin and/or gwenview in kde4?

> change wallpaper & weather wallpaper

by JaKi » Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:53 pm

By now I change my wallpaper through a servicemenu. I have set the wallpaper in that dialog to use ~/background.jpg. And via the picture's servicemenu I copy another file to background.jpg. That works fine except for one exception: the new wallaper only appears after either a relogin or in current session when I open the wallpaper dialog and confirm it without changing anything. So I'd love to call that dialog from the servicemenu.

by JaKi » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:33 pm

I installed the "next wallpaper" widget and it works fine even when the desktop is not in slideshow mode! I now set the wallpaper via my servicemenu (copy the chosen picture to background.jpg) and just have to click on the next wallpaper widget in the panel to let the new wallpaper smoothly blend in (I now use a subdirectory in which background.jpg is the only picture). Nice!

Making a .desktop file to the ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus:

wallpaper.desktop

Code:

[Desktop Entry] Type=Service ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin MimeType=image/*; Actions=;SetWallpaper; X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel X-KDE-Submenu=Image [Desktop Action SetWallpaper] Name=Set Wallpaper Icon=folder-image Exec=convert "%f" ~/Wallpaper/MyWallpaper.jpg

Update:
I'm using the ImageMagic to scale&crop the image:

Code:

Exec=convert "%f" -resize 1680x1050^ -gravity center -extent 1680x1050 ~/Wallpaper/MyWallpaper.png

Making a directory: Wallpaper in the home directory (/home/rog/Wallpaper).

Click #1
With the Dolphin > Right clicking the imagefile > Set Wallpaper

Click #2
Clicking the plasma-widget-nextwallpaper to show the new wallpaper.

The wallpaper is changing.

The "convert is part of the imagemagick. Package: imagemagick.

man convert:

NAME

convert - convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither,
draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.

SYNOPSIS
convert input-file [options] output-file

The plasma-widget-nextwallpaper is > KDE-Look / Next wallpaper:

Simple applet that changes the current wallpaper (when in slideshow mode) on command

It is in the repositories.
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Rog131 replied

Aug 14, 2009, 06:33 AM
Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

Exif information context menu

> Exchangeable image file format

Exiftool > Exif viever

Exiftool
With ExifTool you will have the possibility to watch all or part of the EXIF values and to have them sorted by groups or not. ExifTool is a dedicated EXIF viewer, a free command line tool that works under Linux, Mac and Windows.

The Exiftool is part of the package: libimage-exiftool-perl:

Library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files

ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application
for reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video
files. It recognizes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile,
Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3 meta information as well as the
maker notes of many digital cameras including Canon, Casio, FujiFilm,
JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson,
Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sanyo and Sigma/Foveon.

Making a .desktop file (show_exif_information.desktop):

Code:

[Desktop Entry] Type=Service ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin MimeType=image/*; Actions=;ExifInformation; X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel X-KDE-Submenu=Image [Desktop Action ExifInformation] Name=Show Exif Information Icon=folder-image Exec=exiftool -a -u -g1 "%f" > .exif_information.txt && kdialog --textbox .exif_information.txt 640 480 && rm -f .exif_information.txt

Dropping it to the ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus and right clicking an image file > Image > Show Exif Information

A KDialog window is popping up with:

---- ExifTool ----
ExifTool Version Number : 7.30
---- File ----
File Name : 2007-0503srb.jpg
Directory : /media/sdb3/background
File Size : 510 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2007:05:04 11:12:23
File Type : JPEG
MIME Type : image/jpeg
Image Width : 571
Image Height : 720
Encoding Process : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample : 8
Color Components : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling : YCbCr4:4:4 (1 1)
---- JFIF ----
...
---- IPTC ----
Application Record Version : 2
Caption-Abstract : Installation Of Nose Cone/ Forward Skirt Onto Left SRB Segments. (MIX FILE)
Keywords : SRB, Solid Rocket Booster
...

++ Lot of information...

From the PPA repositories (> FAQ: Repositories ) : servicemenu-exif-information
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Rog131 replied

Jan 06, 2009, 04:28 AM
Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

Paste (copy) over an existing file

This is linking to the Re: HOWTO : create own (partial) icon theme

Earlier > Add the whole path including file name into clipboard (klipper)

This service menu is using the information at the klipper to copy a (image) file over an existing file.

KDE 3.5

At the /usr/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus/. paste_over.desktop:

Code:

[Desktop Entry] ServiceTypes=image/* Actions=Paste_Over; Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application [Desktop Action Paste_Over] Type=Application Name=Paste Over Icon=svn_switch Exec=cp `dcop klipper klipper getClipboardContents` "%u"

KDE 4

At the /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus. paste_over.desktop:

Code:

[Desktop Entry] Type=Service ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin MimeType=image/*; Actions=Paste_Over X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel X-KDE-Submenu=OneLiners [Desktop Action Paste_Over] Name=Paste Over Icon=svn_switch Exec=cp `qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.getClipboardContents` "%u"

Use
(this is with the KDE 4)

File #1
Right click a file > OneLiners > To Klipper
- file name with the full path is copied to the clipboard.

File #2
Right click a image file > OneLiners > Paste Over
- file, which name+path, is at the klipper is copied over the file #2.
- file #2 will keep its orginal name, information is copied not the name.

Pic: Copying images between > Leopard-Style and > Crystal-Project
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Guest replied

Nov 20, 2008, 08:53 AM
Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

When I first installed KDE4 and ran Dolphin, the Action/Service Menus were the first things that I noticed were missing. I did not like how Konquer wanted to be the solve all solution to File Management, Media Player, Web Browser, etc... But, the one thing that made handling management of large amounts of files was partly (a big part) to do with the Service Menus. The quest was on to make them work in Dolphin. That led me here.

While most of the information here helped, it is not complete and unfortunately there isn't much help elsewhere. So instead of naming who gave what good info and just adding mine, I will start from the top so that it is all in one place for the next person with the same problem. Before I begin I would like to thank everyone here for the help (you will probably see some of your info below ).

Please note, this guide is for Kubuntu 8.10.

Service Menu files are named:

<service>.desktop

where <service> is a whatever the author wants to name the file and is
not seen in Dolphin. These files are located in various directories:

System wide (for all users) service menus:

Konqueror: /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus

Dolphin: /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus

Home folder (for a user) service menus:

Konqueror: ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus

Dolphin: ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus

The location of the 'services' portion can be found by using the following command
(only really needed if you are using a different distro or version of Kubuntu):

bash$ kde4-config --path services

Desktop files:

The desktop file format for Dolphin is the same as for Konqueror except for two additional
lines (below is a comparison):

Konqueror
Dolphin

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8
ServiceTypes=all/allfiles
Actions=Rename
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
Encoding=UTF-8
ServiceTypes=all/allfiles
Actions=Rename
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin

Make a copy of the original Konqueror files to a temporary directory and add the lines
in red to the files. Finally copy them into either your home ServiceMenu directory or the
system's ServiceMenu directory, then if Dolphin is running close it and reopen it.

Your newly ported Konqueror Service Menus should now be in your right click menus. 8)

Hope this helps and thanx again for everyone's
info here on the subject to bring all this together,

-GrafXMan
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Rog131 replied

Oct 01, 2008, 12:23 PM
Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

Removing without Shift + Delete

This is linking to the Topic: add delete to right click menu and to the Topic: Disabling the trash...

Note / warning
I don't use this and i don't recommend to use this :-X !

KDE 3.5

Making a remove.desktop file:

Code:

[Desktop Entry] ServiceTypes=all/allfiles,inode/directory Actions=remove; Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application [Desktop Action remove] Type=Application Name=Remove Icon=button_cancel Exec=rm -f "%U"

Dropping .desktop file to the /usr/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus/

man rm tells:

RM(1) User Commands RM(1)

NAME
rm - remove files or directories

SYNOPSIS
rm [OPTION]... FILE...

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of rm. rm removes each
specified file. By default, it does not remove directories.

If a file is unwritable, the standard input is a tty, and the -f or
--force option is not given, rm prompts the user for whether to remove
the file. If the response is not affirmative, the file is skipped.

OPTIONS

-f, --force
ignore nonexistent files, never prompt

KDE 4

Making a .desktop file (delete.desktop):

Code:

[Desktop Entry] Type=Service ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin MimeType=all/allfiles;inode/directory; Actions=remove; Encoding=UTF-8 X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel [Desktop Action remove] Type=Application Name=Delete Icon=edit-delete Exec=rm -f "%U"

and dropping it to the ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/

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Rog131 replied

Jun 27, 2008, 06:23 AM
Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

Service menu KArchiver

This is linking: KDE Ark 4.1 Beta 2

karchiver (repositories)

work with compressed files
With kArchiver, you can create and manipulate tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip, rar...
archives just with your mouse. You can add files, remove (with undo/redo),
view one or more files thanks to its multiselection window.

You can also convert files between various archive formats, for example a
tar.bz2 to a zip, or even create multi-platform self-extracting archives!

KArchiver has some wizards that will help you in compiling and
installing softwares through an interface, and in applying patches. It has
an archive "browser", that displays archives in the current directory,
a search tool (to quickly find all archives) and an automatic
splitter/unsplitter to make a file fit on a floppy or inside an email.
kArchiver has been made to be intuitive and powerful!

> KArchiver KDE-Apps.org

> KArchiver freshmeat

Command:

Code:

karchiver --help

tells:

Options:
-x, --extract <directory> Extract to the specified directory
--xe, --extractgui Extract and choose directory in a dialog box
--xh, --extracthere Extract to current directory
--xa, --extractarchdir Extract to the directory where the archive is
-c, --compress Make a .tar.gz archive from these files
--nd, --withoutdcop disable DCOP. Some functions may not work!!
--nw, --withoutwizard disable the configuration wizard
--prefered <compressor_extension> Set the default compressor when right-clicking a file.Enter one of these extensions: tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip, rar, lha, gz, bz2

1) Making text file karchiver.desktop:

Code:

[Desktop Entry] Type=Service X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,all/all Actions=CompressHere;ExtractHere;ExtractWhere; X-KDE-Submenu=KArchiver [Desktop Action CompressHere] Type=Application Name=Compress Here Exec=karchiver -c %U Icon=archive-insert [Desktop Action ExtractHere] Type=Application Name=Extract Here Exec=karchiver --xa %u Icon=archive-extract [Desktop Action ExtractWhere] Type=Application Name=Extract to Where Icon=archive-insert-directory Exec=karchiver --xe %u

2) Dropping it in the /usr/share/kde4/services

3) Testing notes

- There is not "Extract to subdirectory". There is "Extract to Where" - karchiver will ask where to extract.
- When compressing more that one file, karchiver will ask archive name, extension (name.zip, name.tar.gz ...) and where to save archive (Browse).

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Rog131 replied

Jun 26, 2008, 04:15 AM

Re: Service Menus with Dolphin

Service menus Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex (pre-alpha), KDE 4.1 (Beta 2).

This is linking: Any first impressions on KDE 4.1 beta for Kubuntu?

This is using ark; version: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3

Adding Compress Here, Extract Here and Extract to subdirectory service menus:

1) Making text files:

myark_compress.desktop

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,all/all
Actions=compressHere

[Desktop Action compressHere]
Name=Compress Here
Exec=ark --add-to %u %u.tar.gz
Icon=ark

myark_extract.desktop

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=application/*;
Actions=extractHere

[Desktop Action extractHere]
Name=Extract Here
Exec=ark --extract-to %d %u
Icon=ark

myark_extract_subdir.desktop

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=application/*;
Actions=ExtractSubdir

[Desktop Action ExtractSubdir]
Name=Extract to subdirectory
Icon=ark
Exec=ark -caption "%c" %i %m --guess-name --extract-to "%d" "%u"

2) Dropping them in the /usr/share/kde4/services

3) Testing...

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