Re: Can Caja be tweaked -- Goal is file management for elderly
On Sat, 2025-10-25 at 08:15 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The underlying problem is Caja gives *ONLY* 2 choices to open a file:
> 1. a fixed default tool.
> 2. a list of _all_ tools used to open that file type.
>
> Today I wanted to about the simplest possible edit of a PDF.
> Select a single page to be saved as its one file.
>
> On my system the first option is to open it with Atril. An excellent
> tool allowing one to read, search, or print the document.
>
> The second option is effectively a pseudo-random list of all tools
> ever
> used to open a PDF. [Alphabetizing the list is uninformative.]
>
> I would like to have three choices:
> 1. view/print
> 2. primary manipulation tool
> 3. selection of special purpose tools.
I don’t use Caja, but maybe the 'caja-actions' extension package would
be useful for this?
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Jan Claeys
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