software-installation – How to Use Nautilus Compare in Ubuntu 20.04

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Up to 18.04 it was possible to install nautilus-compare to get a context menu that provide a compare later and compare to option. Now that I'm trying an upgrade to 20.04 I'm wondering how to do this in Focal. I assume it can be done using the fma-config-tool, but if someone has done it already, I'd like to avoid trying to invent an inferior wheel myself.

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Update 20200522: the package is available in PPA and is installable by:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:boamaod/nautilus-compare
sudo apt-get install nautilus-compare

The package was removed from official Ubuntu 20.04 LTS repository.

But you can still download package from 19.10 manually and install it:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/nautilus-compare/nautilus-compare_0.0.4+po1-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get install ./nautilus-compare_0.0.4+po1-1_all.deb

then restart Nautilus and use it as before.

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You need to markup your working directory. This is how I would do it:

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Parameters: gui

Working directory: %d/%b

This will use the current directory, then the basename of the directory selected.

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To add menu items to can write a Nautilus extension, like

from gi.repository import Nautilus, GObject

class MyItemExtension(GObject.GObject, Nautilus.MenuProvider):
    def get_file_items(self, window, files):
        menuitem = Nautilus.MenuItem(name='MyItem::SomeItem', 
                                     label='My Item', 
                                     tip='my own item',
                                     icon='')

        menuitem.connect('activate', self.on_menu_item_clicked, files)
        return menuitem,

    def on_menu_item_clicked(self, item, files):
        print [f.get_name() for f in files]

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As far as I know there is no documented way to remove menu items.

The see API reference for some more information.

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