[ALUG] Gnome context menu integration

[steveydoteu]

Mark Rogers wrote:
> I'm sure a suitable Google would help me here but I'm not sure what to 
> search for; a few random attempts got me close but not close enough.
>
> I have to work a lot with XLS files which need converting to CSV files 
> (using a tab separator). At the moment I do this using OOo which is 
> overkill.
>
> I could do this from the commandline using htmldoc/xls2csv but that's 
> not all that convenient in the GUI environment either.
>
> So what I would like to do is right-click the file in Nautilus and click 
> a "convert to TSV" menu option that I set up to use xls2csv, taking 
> blah.xls to create blah.csv.
>
> Where do I start?
>
> There's lots of similar stuff I'm used to from Windows (eg using the 
> context menu to create/extract zip/etc files) although I wouldn't know 
> how to do it on Windows either - I'd rely on the relevant apps setting 
> that up for me.
>
>   
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Audio%2BVideo%2BImage%2BText+Convert?content=92533&PHPSESSID=f4ac75e388df32f712c70345d6fe0d78

Could work, have not tested it personally though.