Add a method to open arbitrary files from nautilus with an application or script.
Issue
-
Need an easy-to-use method to open arbitrary files from nautilus with an application or script, which is not maintained by the rpm database.
Current Behavior
- Right click on
my file
->Open with other application
neitherView All Applications
norFind New Applications
allows to select acustom tool/scrip/binary
to use for openingmy file
.
Desired behavior
- Right click on a
my file
->Open with other application
- Choose a button like
Open with custom application
which opens a dialog for selecting executable files from my file system, e.g. a Python script or an application taken from a tarball. - After selecting the executable it is used to open the initially selected file, the selection is saved somewhere.
- The next time when
right click
that file (or better any file), need option to chooseOpen with other application
again and the previously chosen executable is directly available for selection.
- Right click on
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4
- nautilus-3.28.1-15.el8.x86_64.rpm
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