First Impressions of Linux GUI Programming

[David Boddie]

ny_r_marquez at yahoo.com (R.Marquez) wrote in message news:<8a27e309.0311131251.6fe5df0d at posting.google.com>...

> What I mean is that, in Windows Explorer, I am able to select a few
> arbitrary files and/or directories, right click on them and send them
> to an app as parameters.  That way, the app could perform a certain
> job on each one of the selected files.  I've now heard that I'll have
> to wait until KDE 3.2 comes out to be able to do this, since it will
> allow one to define custom context menu
> entries.  I just hope that I will be able to easily write them through
> Python. (I wonder if GNOME will have something similar.)

Is the following URL at all helpful or is the interface too inflexible?

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/dot/servicemenus.html

David