A GUI to add explorer context menus to files.

[arturolinares]

📝 Explorer context menus

Sometimes I want to create tools for certain files in the explorer contextual menu. For example, creating a menu item that allows me optimize a video file using VLC, I would expect a GUI that allows me configure it:

• File type: What files should show the contextual menu item. For example, video/mp4.
• Label: The menu item label. For example, Compress video.
• Command: The command to run when the menu item is selected. For example:

"C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe" "-I dummy" "%s" ":sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,scale=Automático,width=720,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100,scodec=none}:std{access=file{no-overwrite},mux=mp4,dst='%s-small.mp4'}" "vlc://quit"

In the above, %s gets replaced with the full path of the selected file.

Expected behavior

Following the above example, all mp4 videos in explorer will now show a menu item when they are right-clicked that says "Compress video". Upon click, a new compressed video will be saved in the same folder with the suffix -small.mp4.

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[crutkas]

Great idea, I think the master issue for this is issue #33. I think ability to add in custom commands / remove unneeded items is the root.