Renaming file by clicking on it OSX style

[michel]

Greetings,

I was wondering if the famed personalisation of linux / kde would allow for file names to be changed without left clicking or pressing F12 by just clicking and keeping the file name highlighted as in OSX?

Thanks,

Michel

[Rog132]

...the famed personalisation of linux / kde...

The sources are free and available so you could tweak your system as much you want to.


Script option - with multi button mouse

There is the xbindkeys - man xbindkeys:

DESCRIPTION
XbindKeys is a program that grab keys and mouse button events in X and starts associated shell command.

A blog: http://blog.hanschen.org/2009/10/13/...ith-xbindkeys/

=> Adding to the .xbindkeysrc:

"execute-rename-in-active-dolphin.pl"
b:2

The execute-rename-in-active-dolphin.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $member;

my @dolphins = `qdbus org.kde.dolphin*`;
chomp (@dolphins);
foreach $member (@dolphins) {
   my $activeWindow = `qdbus $member /dolphin/Dolphin_1 org.qtproject.Qt.QWidget.isActiveWindow`;
   chomp ($activeWindow);
   if ($activeWindow eq "true") {
      system ("qdbus $member /dolphin/Dolphin_1/actions/rename org.qtproject.Qt.QAction.trigger");
      last;
   }
}

What this does ?

When the second mouse button is clicked the 'rename' is executed in the active Dolphin window.


More:
- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/
- man qdbus
- http://usrlocalbin.blogspot.fi/2008/...-part-one.html
- http://techbase.kde.org/Development/...s/Introduction

[michel]

Thanks, I will have a look at it. Michel