obfilebrowser

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ObFileBrowser is a *drumroll* file browser for Openbox. It uses pipemenus to display files and directories and generates submenus with commands to open files with their associated applications. These assocations can be configured using Mimeo or any other application that follows the Desktop Entry Specification.

Features

• creates traversable menus for navigating between directories
• creates launcher menus for files and directories
• parent and current directories and be hidden
• displays hidden files in separate, optional menu
• options to add custom commands to launcher menu, e.g. for copying filepaths, creating associations

Additional Menus

• desktop entry menus, sorted by name and by category

Screenshots

CpzFileBrowser

ShadowKyogre has created a Compiz Boxmenu conversion of ObFileBrowser. You can find it on SourceForge.

Changelog

2011-06-16

• added caching for the ObDesktopBrowser menu

2011-03-12

• added optional cache

2011-02-22

• Rewrote ObFileBrowser from scratch.
• cleaner code
  • use of the xml.dom module for generating pipe menus
  • classes
  • Mimeo integration
• pretty printing of the output
• removed hard-coded xsel detection
• added new options (--assoc, --command, --more-help)
• added "--desktop-menu" option to display Desktop Entries

2011-02-02

• Replaced old Mimeo code with new Mimeo module (new dependency: Mimeo)
• Added "--term" option to select terminal for desktop files that require one.