Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 13:40 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> And run the script from a 'desktop entry' [1] and your desktop GUI may
> let you run it with file arguments just by dropping files onto it. You
> can put these 'desktop' files on you desktop or in there own directory
> you can open when you have tasks to do.
> 
> The above works for me with LXDE. Though you don't get to edit
> parameters to you scripts, just pass files to them.

Or get the 'desktop' file to run the script in a terminal and use shell
scripting to ask for parameters. E.g. a 'video-resize' script could ask
to width and height with a default to using your most common
requirement.

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Tixy