Wuhan deepin Technology Co.,Ltd.
Why is user-level context menu extension not supported in ~/.local/share/... #12001
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Haven't look at the file manager source code for a while. My blind guess is that this folder is only for OEM purpose instead of for user customization. Might need to look into the source code and asking the file manager team to know if it's by design or simply missed. Will check it next week :) |
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Thank you for the reply! I’ve taken a closer look at the file manager source code. In oemmenu.cpp (dde-file-manager-6.0.58/src/plugins/common/core/dfmplugin-menu/oemmenuscene/oemmenu.cpp), I noticed that the supported search paths for .desktop right-click menu entries are hardcoded as follows:
It seems that user-level directories like ~/.local/share/deepin/dde-file-manager/oem-menuextensions/ are currently not supported. My use case is to provide right-click menu extensions for specific users only (not system-wide). According to the documentation here: Looking forward to your feedback or any updates on this! |
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Seems you haven't upgraded your system for a while, please consider upgrade it first. According to the current codebase (link to exact line), it's already supported since The other method you've mentioned also supports |
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Thank you for your response! Since my system is UOS 20 Desktop, and the output of dde-file-manager -v shows that the current version is 6.0.58.16, I only reviewed the source code for that specific version. It’s great to know that this issue has already been resolved in version 6.5.47 — excellent work! However, unfortunately, our clients are unlikely to upgrade the entire system just for this one issue. So I would like to ask: Any advice would be greatly appreciated — thanks again! |
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Sorry I cannot answer UOS 20 related questions since I personally didn't get involved maintaining UOS 20 and don't really know the state/revision of packages shipped with 20. I would personally suggest you reach out the commercial support since you already using a commercial release :) |
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Thanks for your reply and suggestion. Got it — I’ll reach out to the commercial support team for more details |
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Hello developers,
I noticed that the DDE file manager currently only loads context menu extensions from the system-level directory:
/usr/share/deepin/dde-file-manager/oem-menuextensions/This means .desktop files placed under a user-level directory like:
~/.local/share/deepin/dde-file-manager/oem-menuextensions/are not recognized at all, even though XDG directory standards would suggest user-level customizations should take precedence.
This behavior leads to a problem:
When an application installs a right-click menu entry globally, all users can see it, which may not match product design requirements, especially when different users share the same system but require different environments or configurations.
🧐 Question:
1, Is there a design reason for not supporting user-level .desktop extensions?
2, Is there a workaround or plan to allow per-user context menu entries?
Thanks for your great work!
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