https://github.com/tfuxu/win32-details
.exe file details for your Nautilus file browser
https://github.com/tfuxu/win32-details
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.exe file details for your Nautilus file browser
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/tfuxu/win32-details
- Owner: tfuxu
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2022-06-08T11:29:37.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-11-15T22:45:27.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-20T04:49:37.357Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: details, exe, gnome, gtk4, nautilus, nautilus-extension, python, win32
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 452 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Win32 Details
**Win32 Details** is an additional page in Properties dialog named `More Properties`, similar to `Details` tab from Windows File Explorer. It allows to conveniently display a specific details about .exe files within a comfort of your file browser.
## How to use it
Just right-click any .exe file, go to Properties, and click `More Properties` button at the bottom of the page.
## Installation
### From PyPI
Win32 Details can be installed system-widely or just for the current user.
User install:
```
pip3 install --user win32-details
win32-details --install-user
```
System-wide install:
```
sudo pip3 install win32-details
sudo win32-details --install-system
```
Close currently opened Nautilus instances to load the extension:
```
nautilus -q
```
## Building from source
### Prerequisites
The following packages are required to build win32-details:
* **Python** >= 3.6,
* A recent version of **Nautilus >= 43.x**,
* [nautilus-python](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NautilusPython),
* Copy of [exiftool](https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool) (required by PyExifTool),
* [PyExifTool](https://pypi.org/project/PyExifTool/)
* **Meson** and **Ninja** build systems (only needed for [Using Meson](#using-meson) build option)
Required Python libraries:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
### Build instructions
Clone the repository:
```
git clone https://github.com/tfuxu/win32-details.git
cd win32-details
```
#### As a library:
Local installation:
```
pip3 install --user .
win32-details --install-user
```
System-wide installation:
```
sudo pip3 install .
sudo win32-details --install-system
```
#### Using Meson:
Local installation:
```
meson builddir --prefix="$HOME/.local"
ninja -C builddir install
```
System-wide installation:
```
meson builddir --prefix=/usr
sudo ninja -C builddir install
```
> **Warning**
> If you get a `Directory already configured` message when running `meson builddir` command, you can append to this command `--wipe` option to clean build directory before configuration.
Close currently opened Nautilus instances to load the extension:
```
nautilus -q
```
## Note about Nautilus versions below 43.x
Support for older Nautilus versions has been removed in win32-details 0.5.0, because of moving to Nautilus API 4.0, which deprecates direct usage of GTK widgets in favor of a new model-based interface (which is a shitty decision IMO). In this situation I had three options:
- Maintain both versions of extension, one for Nautilus 43 and above, and one for Nautilus <= 42,
- Make this extension as a standalone program, and use extension to launch it,
- Just deprecate support for older Nautilus versions.
Honestly, I'm not that interested in maintaining a separate version of extension, as majority of people are using the latest version of Nautilus now. Moving a extension to a standalone program would make everything more complicated, and I don't think that many people would want to install an app which just shows them details of EXE files (but maybe, in the [future](https://github.com/tfuxu/win32-details/issues/5)...).
## License
This repository is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license. You can find a copy of the license in the LICENSE file.
## Changelog
* **0.5.0:**
* Port extension to Nautilus API 4.0, **from this version onward, win32-details won't support Nautilus versions below 43**[ (more info)](#note-about-nautilus-versions-below-43x)
* Add new Meson build option
* Change page name to `More Properties`
* **0.4.0:**
* Add a `MD5 Hash` row
* Allow user to copy values from rows (if row is selected, click left one time to select text)
* Add setup.py for packaging to PyPI
* Create a small CLI tool for easier installing (based on [Nautilus Terminal](https://github.com/flozz/nautilus-terminal/blob/master/nautilus_terminal/__main__.py))
* **0.1.0:**
* Initial release of Win32 Details