Nautilus Extension for Symbolic Link

symlink.py

# symlink.py - Nautilus Extension for Symbolic Link
#
# It adds 'Follow symbolic link' and 'Read symbolic link' menu in
# Nautilus.
#
# In Ubuntu, you can install this program using the following commands:
# % sudo apt-get install python-nautilus zenity
# % mkdir -p ~/.nautilus/python-extensions
# % cp symlink.py ~/.nautilus/python-extensions
# % nautilus -q
#
# Seungwon Jeong <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright (C) 2011 by Seungwon Jeong

import nautilus

import os

import urllib

class Symlink(nautilus.MenuProvider):
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def _uri_to_path(self, uri):
        return urllib.unquote(uri[7:]) # Strip leading file://

    def follow_symlink(self, menu, files):
        path = self._uri_to_path(files[0].get_uri())
        dirname = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(path))
        os.system('gnome-open ' + dirname)

    def read_symlink(self, menu, files):
        path = self._uri_to_path(files[0].get_uri())
        realpath = os.path.realpath(path)
        os.system("zenity --info --title='%s' --text='%s' &" % (path, realpath))

    def get_file_items(self, window, files):
        if len(files) != 1:
            return

        path = self._uri_to_path(files[0].get_uri())
        if not os.path.islink(path):
            return;

        item_follow = nautilus.MenuItem('Symlink::Follow',
                                        'Follow symbolic link',
                                        'Follow symbolic link')
        item_follow.connect('activate', self.follow_symlink, files)

        item_read = nautilus.MenuItem('Symlink::Read',
                                      'Read symbolic link',
                                      'Read symbolic link')
        item_read.connect('activate', self.read_symlink, files)

        return [item_follow, item_read]

For the record, if someone is searching for something like this for current caja versions. I wrote one see here: https://github.com/Nudin/caja-extensions