Re: Can Caja be tweaked -- Goal is file management for elderly

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 10/27/25 5:11 PM, Jan Claeys wrote:
> 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?

Thank you
Syntaptic points me to https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja-actions
which gives just enough information to whet my appetite.

*UNFORTUNATELY* github speaks "developer" not "enduser".
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=caja-actions was unsatisfactory

Can a caja-actions user point me something documenting the actual usage 
of the tool demonstrating whether or not I would find it suitable.

TIA