I tried to install several python nautilus extensions (i.e. nautilus-columns, nautilus-open-as-root,... ) without any success. Installation goes fine, but nothing shows up in nautilus.
Of course, package python-nautilus is already installed:
ii python-nautilus 1.1-8 amd64 Python binding for Nautilus components
Digging a little bit, I discovered that nautilus was complaining when starting:
ImportError: could not import gobject (could not find _PyGObject_API object)
(nautilus:18199): Nautilus-Python-WARNING **: pygobject initialization failed
(nautilus:18199): Nautilus-Python-WARNING **: nautilus_python_init_python failed
Looks like an issue with gobject library or something like that.
As I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.5 with python upgraded, may be the issue is there ? Here is an extract of some packages available on my distribution:
ii libpython-stdlib:amd64 2.7.5-5ubuntu3 amd64 interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python version)
ii libpython2.7-stdlib:amd64 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2 amd64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (standard library, version 2.7)
ii libpython3-stdlib:amd64 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 amd64 interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)
ii libpython3.4-stdlib:amd64 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.4 amd64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (standard library, version 3.4)
ii python 2.7.5-5ubuntu3 amd64 interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)
ii python-gi 3.12.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 Python 2.x bindings for gobject-introspection libraries
ii python-gobject 3.12.0-1ubuntu1 all Python 2.x bindings for GObject - transitional package
ii python-gobject-2 2.28.6-12build1 amd64 deprecated static Python bindings for the GObject library
ii python2.7 2.7.6-8ubuntu0.2 amd64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.7)
ii python3 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 amd64 interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)
ii python3-gi 3.12.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 Python 3 bindings for gobject-introspection libraries
ii python3.4 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.4 amd64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 3.4)
What made me question python version / gobject / v2.7 and v3.4, is also that python-nautilus README file says:
libautilus-extension Python bindings
====================================
These are unstable bindings for the nautilus extension library
introduced in Gnome 2.6.
For examples and documentation check the examples sub directory.
As of nautilus-python 0.7.0, scripts are also loaded from $XDG_DATA_DIR/nautilus-python/extensions,
which includes ~/.local/share and /usr/share (or whatever your $XDG_DATA_DIR is
set to).
Try to copy test.py to that directory for an example
Requirements
============
Nautilus 2.32.0
Python 2.3
PyGObject 2.28.0
Problems
========
It's currently not possible to reload the python file without
restarting nautilus. That's a planned feature for future versions
=> looks very old, isn't it ?
Latest version of this package seems to be 0.7.3 (2011-03-08). That could explain some compatibility issues with Python 3.4 ? (link to project log)
If yes, how can we proceed to be able to use python extensions for nautilus anyway ? Is there another package to install ? Or can we modify something in this one ?
Any suggestion ?
Thanks !
