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i know the terminal one is installed as an example, but idk about the other.

Opening directory as root is NOT.

Terminal is.

Here and here are a few good ideas.
Actually mintUpload is a good way to upload files as well.
IMHO these are some of the things done right in Mint

there are a couple omploader scripts that work with it, the one I wrote will work as a thunar action or standalone. here's the thread http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ou-please/

edit: heres a watermarking script I did too http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … termarker/

archive support from the context menu

^Shift Delete
Or add "Shred" to custom actions (ie. Shift Delete)

#!/bin/bash
# will ask for confirmation before shredding contents of folder it was called from
# safely cancels on no interaction
echo "Shred files in this folder? y or n"
read -t 4 userconfirm
if [ "$userconfirm" != "y" ]; then
echo "Shred Canceled"
exit 1
else
echo "Going to shred this folder..."
sleep 6s
echo "Shredding..."
shred -uz -n2 *
echo ""
echo "Shredded, gone forever. Will now exit..."
sleep 3s
fi
exit

Shredding to n2 is not so much that it is ultra secure but is quicker. Adjust to n4 or above for more secure but slower.

I'm not sure if it can be done with a custom action... but one of the things I miss from Windows is being able to queue up an album of music directly from the file manager.  I'm thinking something along the lines of:

right-click on any of the songs --> play album

I guess you'd have to have your music arranged in directories for this to work.  Don't want to waste resources reading thousands of mp3 tags to work out which songs belong together.

mpd and pipe menus, there you dont even need a file manager

There is also a thread on Thunar custom actions on the Debian user forums that is worth a look?
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? … 02d88cb34c

nice ;-)