Thunar custom action for viewing a file's copyright or EXIF information.

[avj]

I have been looking for a while for a utility to view extra information from different file types. Things like copyright, version, size information in jpeg files, and found many utility programs that would view one type of file or another, but not several different types.  Today I found what I was looking for and thought I would share it with the community.  For this custom action to work you have to install a package named "libimage-exiftool-perl". Then create a new thunar custom action:

Open file manager by clicking the home folder icon on the panel.  From the file manager menu select "Edit", then click on "Configure custom actions", click the "+" icon on the right to add a new custom action fill the fields with the info below.

NAME: File Information

DESCRIPTION: Display extra file information.

COMMAND: exiftool %f | zenity --width=640 --height=480  --text-info --title="File Information"

On the "Appearance Conditions tab check all boxes except Directories, and then click "OK".

This will give a right click menu item in the file manager to view extra info on many different file types including windows .exe .dll files.

Hopefully this will be helpful to others looking for this information.
Maybe this could be added to LL if enough people find it useful. 

[Wirezfree]

Nice one avj +1

[Valtam]

Thank you avj

[avj]

If anyone wants more information about exiftool, then check the following link it has information on the file types that can be viewed, written to, or edited with exiftool.

http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

[rokytnji]

I just used

Code:

apt search exiftool

and installed all of perl packages it needed for exiftool to function properly in thunar.

[Valtam]

Using avj's custom action, I will be running this a lot