I want to add an option under Create New to create a file of particular type. For example I use Rnote to create notes,. They have .rnote extension.

Now I create a empty file (image, 3rd option from above) with extension as .rnote , but that file when opened in the application can’t be written to, because it is not a proper .rnote file, it is empty file with that extension.

How do I quickly create a proper file for rnote or any application for example libreoffice?

I am on fedora 43, kde plasma.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    Since your question has already been answered, here’s a bonus:
    Add a Desktop Entry in ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/ to get right-click menu actions.

    e.g. to add to Dolphin (and Konqueror) right-click menu

    [Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=<MIME type of whichever type of file the application will work with>;
Actions=NameOfAction
Icon=icon-name-from-theme-for-desktop-entry

[Desktop Action NameOfAction]
Icon=icon-name-of-action-from-theme
Name=Name of action that the user will see
Exec=application-as-you-would-call-in-cli "%f"

    What the %f means and what you might want to use instead

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 day ago

      Oh…, that’s neat thanks!

      So in my use case I made a template for prototype metadata, add a menu action could be to generate the file instead of creating from the template via Exec= field. This would prepopulate the metadatafile with e.g. the list of selected files thanks to %F.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        I didn’t fully understand this, but if you are saying that you want to run something that reads the selected files and creates a new file in the same directory from those contents, then yes, the service menu is a better option than a template.

        While templates are meant for statically configured data, there might be some variable parameters available that I just don’t know of.

        With the service menu thingy, you can just run any executable or shell script.