Re: Contextual menu commands in the Finder
Re: Contextual menu commands in the Finder
- Subject: Re: Contextual menu commands in the Finder
- From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:07:02 -0500
David Catmull wrote:
> So I gather that now that the new 64-bit Finder doesn't support the old CM plugin API, the only way to add commands to the Finder's contextual menus is with the services API. The problem I'm having with doing it as a service is that the commands I want to add should only apply to files in certain locations, and it looks like I can only filter by file type. Is there no way to filter by location too?
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> It looks pretty lame to have to let the commands always appear, and then tell the user afterwards, "No, sorry, you can't really do this to that file."
Yeah, it is pretty lame. Abstractly I understand and sympathize with Apple's move here, but we as software developers lost flexibility and power that not only degrades the user experience but in some cases makes our software impossible to re-create. Services are not offered for the context menu on a Finder window background, for example. And I'm still not sure why someone thought it was a good idea for volume to be a subclass of folder in the UTI hierarchy instead of a peer (and a subclass of container).
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