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Don't most desktop environments already have this?
If you want to include this as an option when right clicking the desktop, you will probably need to patch this into the DE of your choice, however I think at least KDE has an option for custom right click actions.
An environment agnostic tool isn't a bad thing though, it already exists as PinApp, though I'm guessing OP is doing this more as a learning project
Damn, i didn't know this existed. Welp, at least I know how to manipulate the system from code.
Don't be discouraged, doing something from scratch is always a great learning opportunity and even if this isn't the first iteration of such a tool there is room improvement, for instance, I don't think any of the tools that allow creation .desktop shortcuts interface with any context menu as yours would do in the future, so that could be a cool feature to show off!
Yep, all desktop environments have this - whatever text editor is handy. :-)
I see, I didn't know KDE had that, does KDE allow java apps to be used as the right click action? As for GNOME, I'm still trying to figure it out.
Until then, I will post the link to the app in the future. It needs some beautification, and quality of life changes so you and the others can use it as you use sudo apt update and upgrade to update your PCs.
For KDE right click menus, you need to use service menus: https://develop.kde.org/docs/apps/dolphin/service-menus/
These are used by Plasma and most KDE apps that deal with files.
Krusader has a more powerful system for this called UserActions, but they're exclusive to Krusader and afaik Krusader is also compatible with service menus, so these are much less portable: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/krusader/krusader/useractions.html
Yes, it works with any command.
A window manager is enough with any customizable drop menu, can open a file manager of choice, create a folder or file, no desktop is needed.
worker ~/.Desktop
or whatever filemanager one is using
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